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A 5 page paper discussing change in historical perspective regarding the fate of Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, specifically the Kalapuya. History, of course, quite often chose to ignore any follow-up to the many treaties that were signed throughout the 19th century. The facts may have ceased to exist on the white side, for it would not be conducive to career advancement to assume responsibility for Indian ire and Indians generally carried little if any standing. Change in historical perspective may be nothing more than inclusion of all of the truth. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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for decades historians - would tell of arriving at treaty agreements with Indians all across what would become the continental United States. They claimed to have offered material prosperity,
physical safety and lands that would belong only to the individual tribes with whom they made their treaties.1 Vine Deloria created much discussion among the mainstream media when he
first published Custer Died for Your Sins in the 1970s, refuting the white races self-proclaimed honor and decency in dealing with the Indian tribes it displaced to make room for
itself. Vine Deloria was not a historian in the sense that white people use the word. He was, however, a Native American
sickened over the sight of his once-proud people confined to a reservation and unable to overcome the discrimination outside its boundaries. Surely Deloria was instrumental in encouraging the trend
toward reinterpretation of unchanging facts. Environmental Effects Historians treasure primary sources, repositories of information and historical fact that has not been interpreted by
others of disparate backgrounds and cultures for decades or even centuries. Johnson (1999) offers such a source in his account of the Kalapuya tribe of the Willamette Valley.2
Johnson (1999) specifically addresses the path of negotiations between the Kalapuya and the US government, recounting the Kalapuyas approach to life, land and conservation prior to the arrival of the
white man and mourning over the changes that occurred within the culture after the greatest portion of the Kalapuya died of malaria after being exposed to European diseases.
The last known speaker of the Kalapuya language, John Hudson, told linguist Melville Jacobs in 1928 that the changes that had occurred over his lifetime
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