Kalapuya

The Luckiamute were a Kalapuya people of the Willamette Valley, living along the Luckiamute River and its tributaries. They gathered camas bulbs, nuts, seeds and berries, and hunted and fished in the valley. Kalapuya people used fire to maintain open ground and encourage useful plants, including camas and the oaks that supplied acorns. From 1830 to 1833 recurring epidemics, generally identified as malaria, devastated communities throughout the Willamette and lower Columbia valleys.