Atfalati

The Atfalati, or Tualatin, were Northern Kalapuya speakers whose villages lay across the Tualatin Plains. Several stood around Wapato Lake, a shallow wetland named for the edible tubers that grew in its waters. Camas, berries, nuts, fish, deer, and elk also supported the people of the plains. Controlled burning helped keep the valley open and encourage useful plants. In the 1830s epidemics devastated the Atfalati and their neighbors, reducing communities that had long lived across the plains and surrounding hills.

The later city of Salem lies here.