The Provisional Government Vote
Settlers voted to form Oregon’s Provisional Government in this year.
What was 1843?
This was the name of the Kalapuya band who lived near present-day Champoeg.
Who are the Ahantchuyuk?
This shared trade language was spoken among tribes and settlers throughout the region.
What is Chinuk Wawa?
This natural disaster wiped out the town of Champoeg in 1861.
What is a flood?
This U.S. policy forced Native children to give up their languages and traditions.
What is the Indian Boarding School system?
This was the final vote count.
What is 52 in favor, 50 against?
The word “Champoeg” likely came from this native plant root.
What is the Yampah root?
This company established Fort Vancouver, a hub for trade and diplomacy.
What is the Hudson’s Bay Company?
This group of settlers founded the town of Champoeg.
Who are the French-Canadian fur traders?
Native children had to give up these personal markers of culture at school.
What are their language, hair, and traditional clothing?
Before the vote, this trading company maintained law and order in the region.
What is the Hudson’s Bay Company?
After treaties were signed, the Kalapuya were forcibly removed to this reservation.
What is Grand Ronde?
This fur-bearing animal’s pelt was treated like currency in early Oregon trade.
What is the beaver?
The French Prairie region, where Champoeg was located, was known for this agricultural advantage.
What is rich farmland?
The Indian Manual Labor Training School trained students in these skills.
What are homemaking, carpentry, and blacksmithing?
Settlers who supported a provisional government said they wanted to organize for these reasons.
What are defense, land claims, and legal disputes?
These treaties were signed at Champoeg in 1851 but never ratified by Congress.
What are the Kalapuya treaties?
These wool blankets, marked with “points,” were traded by Hudson’s Bay Company trappers.
What are point blankets?
Young people in the Kalapuya village often held contests in this river activity.
What is diving?
This Indian Agent said Native children must be “weaned from the pernicious habits of their people.”
Who is Ben Simpson?
Settlers who voted against forming a government opposed it for these main reasons.
What are avoiding U.S. law and taxes?
These two seasonal foods were essential to Kalapuya diet and survival.
What are camas and acorns? (Also accept “salmon and wapato.”)
This modern tribal community continues teaching Chinuk Wawa today.
Who are the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde?
Champoeg became important for both trade and politics because it was this kind of meeting place.
What is a crossroads of Native, French, and American communities?
Native communities today are rebuilding their cultures by doing this.
What is revitalizing traditional languages and customs?