Kalapuya

The Kalapuya were autonomous groups living in the Willamette Valley in present-day Oregon. Bands occupied land along the Willamette and McKenzie rivers, fishing, hunting and gathering roots, nuts and berries.

Kalapuya communities traded camas and wapato through the Columbia River network and managed grasslands with seasonal burning. In the early nineteenth century, after European and American traders and settlers arrived, epidemics devastated their communities.