Multnomah

Multnomah was one of several Chinookan villages on Sauvie Island, where the Willamette joins the Columbia. The island's channels and wetlands supplied fish and wapato, an edible aquatic root, to the communities of the lower river. Lewis and Clark saw the village in 1805 and again on their return in 1806, recording a substantial population. In the early 1830s, an epidemic generally identified as malaria swept through the Columbia country, devastating the villages of the Wapato Valley.

The later city of Portland lies here.