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Kalapooian Indian Tribes
Calapooya.
The name, properly speaking, of a division of the Kalapooian family
formerly occupying the watershed between Willamette and Umpqua Rivers,
Oregon. The term as usually employed, however, includes all the bands
speaking dialects of the Kalapooian language and is made synonymous with
the family name. This double use of the term, coupled with the scanty
information regarding the division, has wrought confusion in the
classification of the bands which can not be rectified. The following were
ascertained by Gatschet to have been bands of this division: Ampishtna,
Tsanchifin, Tsanklightemifa, Tsankupi, and Tsawokot.
Chelamela. A
small division of the Kalapooian family formerly living on Long Tom cr., a
western tributary of Willamette River, Oregon. They were included in the
Dayton treaty of 1855. Nothing is known of their customs, and they are now
extinct.
Chepenafa. A Kalapooian tribe, some
times regarded as a subdivision of the Lakmiut, formerly residing at the
forks of St Marys creek, near Corvallis, Oregon. They are now on Grande
Ronde reservation, being officially known as Marys River Indians, and
number about 25.
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Handbook
of American Indians, 1906
Index of Tribes or Nations |
