Draining Wetlands in the Willamette Valley

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In this paper, I present case studies in reconstructing traditional Indigenous landscapes of the Willamette Valley, involving the removal of Indigenous stewardship, imposing settler agriculture, and draining wetlands in the valley. The environmental reconstruction of settler changes made to these land and water systems provides information about what Traditional landscapes were like for the Kalapuya and Molalla peoples previous to treaties and reservations, and how their culture was adapted to these landscapes.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities

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Abstract Id(s): 40289.0