The Trail of Tears

The Trail of Tears (HM25IN)

Location: Oregon City, OR 97045 Clackamas County
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Country: United States of America
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N 45° 21.863', W 122° 35.69'

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Removal From Their Homelands To The Grand Ronde Reservation

When she went shortly after to her American woman friend, she told her, "They are going to take you Indian people somewhere pretty soon now." She told her, "Do not leave anything. Take along all your things with you. Put your canoe away somewhere. Someone will take care of it. You know the time when such things as eels come. You may then return, you may come and smoke-dry you foods, then you must go back home to the Grand Ronde Reservation. That is the way you will do. At the place there at Grand Ronde where they will take you, they will give land to you. They will construct a house for you, they will give you various things." she told her.
Now I do not know how long after that, they took the Indian people away to the Grand Ronde Reservation.
...She went back home, she got to there. Her old man had already broken up their canoe. She tied up everything of their personal possessions, and then on the following day they took them south on the Willamette River in a steamboat. One that was just flat, a barge, they put some of them on it to transport them as far as Dayton, on the Yamhill River.
My mother's mother used to say that they did not comprehend it. On the following day they killed cattle, they killed hogs, and they took them to the Indians. In the same way also sugar, lard, potatoes, wheat flour and all sorts of

things they came and gave us. Some of the old people would not eat it. They just cried, and the days following that they were still crying. That was all they did.
Translated and edited from recollections of Victoria Howard from Clackamas Chinook Texts, Part 2, by Melville Jacobs. Victoria spoke Clackamas Chinook and her stories and ethnographic materials were recorded in Clackamas and translated into English in two volumes by Melville Jacobs in 1929 and 1930. His work was published in 1958.

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HM Number	HM25IN
Tags	Native Americans
Placed By	End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center
Marker Condition	No reports yet
Date Added	Friday, February 16th, 2018 at 10:02am PST -08:00

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UTM (WGS84 Datum)	10T E 531730 N 5023509
Decimal Degrees	45.36438333, -122.59483333
Degrees and Decimal Minutes	N 45° 21.863', W 122° 35.69'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds	45° 21' 51.78" N, 122° 35' 41.4" W
Driving Directions	Google Maps
Area Code(s)	503
Which side of the road?	Marker is on the right when traveling North
Closest Postal Address	At or near 1726 Washington St, Oregon City OR 97045, US
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