Native People and Places
The First People of Portland
Plants and Animals
Non-Native People Bring Change
Miscellaneous
100

The right of a group of people to make their own decisions about the way they govern their community. 

What is sovereignty?

100

Someone who plans, designs, and builds things that can make life better for a group of people

What is an engineer?

100

This plant food source grows near water. The bulbs of the plant can be harvested and eaten. 

What is wapato?

100

1792

What is when did the Columbia Rediviva ship arrive in Oregon?
100

a petroglyph in Horsethief Lake Park Washington which tells the story of a female chief who was changed into rock

What is She Who Watches?

200

Portland was built along this river. 

What is the Willamette River?

200

This was the center of life for the first people.  It was were people gathered, cooked, and shared stories. 

What is the village?

200

This is following the season as a way of harvesting and gathering food.

What is "seasonal round?"

200

The length of the Oregon Trail

What is 2000 miles?

200

This Portland walking bridge was built in 2015. 

What is Tilikum Crossing?

300

This city was once home to the Multnomah Tribe, the Cascades Watlala Tribe, the Clowwewalla and the Clackamas tribes of the Chinook Indians and the Tualatin band of the Kalapuya. 

What is Portland?

300
These could use as many as 63 or more Western red cedar trees to build. 

What is a plankhouse?

300
A lovely spring flower that looks blue or purple and has bulbs that live below the soil.  These bulbs are harvested in spring and are dried and stored so they can be eaten later in the year. 

camas

300

This law allowed white male settlers to get free land from the US government.

What is the Oregon Donation Land Claim Act?

300

Oregon's Poet Laureate in 2016

Who is Elizabeth Woody?

400

The number of Native people living in Portland today. 

What is over 40,000?

400

The three types of Chinookan village houses.

What is plankhouse, temporary, and pit house?
400

This tree's bark is used to make baskets, canoes, clothing, medicine and more. 

What is Western red cedar?

400

These animals' fur were used for hats and other fashion.

What is beaver?

400

A period of time that is longer than human memory

What is time immemorial? 

500

an image carved in rock

What is a petroglyph?

500

a place to make a fire

What is a hearth?

500

huckleberry, blackberry, elderberry, salmonberry, and wild strawberry

What is some of the berries collected by Portland's first people?

500

a piece of land held in ownership by the United States government for the benefit of a federally recognized tribe

What is a reservation?

500

The two leaders of the Corps of Discovery

Who were William Clark and Meriwether Lewis?

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