Calapooya

Calapooya mountains and attack the settlements in Lane county.

Reminiscences of a Pioneer William Thompson

In the fall after the departure of the first contingent, and at a time when families were practically defenseless, news reached us by a tired rider that 700 Indians had crossed the trail over the Cascade mountains and were burning the homes and butchering the settlers on the Calapooya, twenty miles away.

Reminiscences of a Pioneer William Thompson

Fears were entertained that the savages from the south would cross over the Calapooya mountains and attack the settlements in Lane county.

Reminiscences of a Pioneer Thompson, William, Colonel 1912

In the fall after the departure of the first contingent, and at a time when families were practically defenseless, news reached us by a tired rider that 700 Indians had crossed the trail over the Cascade mountains and were burning the homes and butchering the settlers on the Calapooya, twenty miles away.

Reminiscences of a Pioneer Thompson, William, Colonel 1912

Neighbors sought to dissuade him, but mounting a swift horse he started for Brownsville on the Calapooya.

Reminiscences of a Pioneer Thompson, William, Colonel 1912

Yurok, Takelma, Shasta, Klamath, Calapooya, Modoc and Yahooskin Tribes -- we understand the survival of salmon in their homelands is a CORE CULTURAL ISSUE of survival for the Indigenous People.

Rogue Valley IMC 2008