Descendant sets record straight about early residents.Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard YONCALLA - Esther Stutzman is relatively new to the Yoncalla area but has been steeped in its lore and legends all her life. Stutzman is the great-great-granddaughter of the man who led the Komemma band of the Kalapuya Indian tribe INDIAN TRIBE. A separate and distinct community or body of the aboriginal Indian race of men found in the United States. 2. Such a tribe, situated within the boundaries of a state, and exercising the powers of government and, sovereignty, under the national when the northern Douglas County Douglas County is the name of twelve counties in the United States:
She was raised in her father's Coos tribe, but was intrigued by the history of her mother's people - the Komemmas - and returned to her ancestral home The Ancestral Home (Dom Ojczysty) is a political party in Poland, founded after the elections. It is a splinter of the League of Polish Families and led by Piotr Krutul. 11 years ago to do what she can to protect the band's heritage and correct some of the misperceptions about them. She is involved in an effort to build a 22-foot Kalapuya long canoe and is hoping to recruit a linguist lin·guist n. 1. A person who speaks several languages fluently. 2. A specialist in linguistics. [Latin lingua, language; see to help revive the "sleeping language" of the Komemmas. But a few misperceptions arose again last weekend in a Register-Guard story about efforts to revive the Yoncalla rodeo. The story touched on the town's history, relying on a 1950s-vintage clipping (1) Cutting off the outer edges or boundaries of a word, signal or image. In rendering an image, clipping removes any objects or portions thereof that are not visible on screen. See scissoring. See also WCA. from the paper's archives for a single paragraph about the area's original inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. . Stutzman acknowledged Wednesday that the information was not exactly incorrect, but said it was tainted taint v. taint·ed, taint·ing, taints v.tr. 1. To affect with or as if with a disease. 2. To affect with decay or putrefaction; spoil. See Synonyms at contaminate. 3. by biases that were common in the area 50 years ago and can still be found today. The people who compiled the information may have been well-intentioned, Stutzman said, but they were not historians and "they kind of promoted our local history as they wanted to hear it." The 1950s article recounted the Komemmas' history in the context of efforts back then to name a valley northeast of Yoncalla "Halo Valley." The story said the Komemma band's leader was named Halo, his people were called Halos and the name was a native word that meant they were poor and had few means. In fact, Stutzman said, the Komemmas prospered in the Yoncalla area for at least a few hundred years. European diseases preceded the white settlers' move into Oregon, and decimated some native populations such as the Komemmas. So Stutzman speculated that her great-great-grandfather may have been asked his name and responded that he was "halo," or poor, because of his band's health situation. His name in fact was Camafeema, which meant "ferns that grow from the ground," his village was Splac'ta Alla and his people were Komemmas. Susan Applegate, whose own ancestors established the Applegate Trail The Applegate Trail was wilderness trail through today's Nevada, northern California, and Oregon, and was originally intended as a less dangerous route to the Oregon Territory. U.S. Route 99 through Oregon (now Oregon Route 99) and Interstate 5 both follow the trail's route. and were among the first white settlers in Yoncalla, said the "Halo" name was "probably only used by a very few people," but has persisted as some attitudes toward American Indian American Indian or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. people have been slow to change. Applegate is a descendant of Charles and Lindsay Applegate, a pair of brothers who settled the Yoncalla area and stood up for Camafeema when the U.S. Cavalry was rounding up Indians to force them onto a reservation near Salem. Camafeema refused to leave his home, and he and his family were allowed to remain after the Applegates promised to look out for him. "I don't think there are different versions of history," Susan Applegate said Wednesday, pointing out that "Halo" was not the true name of either Camafeema or the Komemmas. "It was not the tribal name A tribal name is a name of an ethnic tribe —usually of ancient origin, which represented its self-identity. Studies of Native American tribal names show that most had an original meaning comparable to "human," "people" "us"—the "tribal" name for itself was often ," she said. "Its use was picked up by people who were not in a relationship with (the Komemmas) and a community that may have had that mix of fear and pride that a lot of people do." |
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