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Historic Overview of Douglas County C H A p T E R 2 Ear ly Prune Dryer in Douglas County CHAPTER II HISTORICOYERVIEW O F DOUGLAS COUNTyl Douglas County possess a rich· cultural heritage. This is substantiated by a variety of publications recording its people, places and events. As partof their respective cultural resource managementprogram s, theUmpqua National Forest andthe Bureau ofLan d Management(R oseburg District)have retained theservices of theDepartment Ant of hropology, Oregon State University to preparea report which reconstructsmaj or prehistoric andhistoric events and sequences that pertain to lands under the jurisdiction of these agencies. Additional consideration was given to adjacent landswhich maybe affected by planning decisions undertakenby these agencies. InMarch, 1980, a Draft of thisreport was completed. This Draft is titled"CULTURAL RESO URCEOVERVIEW-­ UMPQUA NATIONAL FOREST AND BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT - ROSEBURG DISTRICT." The fo llowing excerpts are taken from this report in order to gaina comprehensive overview regardingthe cultural resources in the County. Cultural Resources - A Summary The Prehistorical Chronology fo r WesternOregon including Douglas Countyis: Earliesthuman penetration and occupation 14,000 - 7000 BC Uplandhunting adaptations - early phases 6000 - 2000 BC Lower riverine adaptations 3000 - 1500 BC Uplandhunting adaptations - later phases 2500 BC - AD 1600 Coastal adaptations 2500 BC - AD 1600 Athabaskanintru sions 1500 - 1000 BC Ethnographic present AD 500 - 1800 14.000 - 7000 BC. This phase involved movements of peoples fromthe eastern regions, probably thesouthern Plate au or northern Great Basin, throughthe Cascade Mountains and into the Umpqua Basin. This movement is poorly documented in the County--dates of 14,000 BC to 12,000 BC are only speCUlative and based upon comparisons. ICondensed fromHoney, W.D. andT.C. Hogg, General Editors, Cultural Resource Overview. Volume I. Umpqua National Forest and Bureau of Land Management. Roseburg District, Draft, Oregon State University Department Anthropof ology, Corvallis, OR, March, 1980. 12 These early culturesspread across North America as a functionof their specialized big game hunting practices. Two early cultures included Clovis (10,000 BC) and the Folsom (9000 BC). These cultures arepar tially identifiedby their distinctive diagnostic lanceolate (blade like) points. Two of thesepoints have been found in the Umpqua Basin. One is analleged "Folsom point" found by a farm er near Roseburg and the other is a similar base of a point fo undnear Steambo at. 6000 - 2000 BC. Thisearly ad aptation probably took thefo rmof an uplandhunting culture, which involved thedevelopment of new stone technologies. Access to the area probably cameby way of the river valleys, andma jor ridge lines. Three possible early phases of theadaptation are thought to have existed. Those are: 1) an early phase; 2) a transitional phase; and 3) an upland florescentph ase. Davis (1974) identifiedthe latter two phases in the contiguous Rogue River basin. Brauner (1980) recovered similar materials from all three phases in the Applegate area near Jacksonville. 3000 - 1500 BC. During this time frame, some hypothesize that aboriginal groups moved toward the estuaries and lower tidal-regulated rivers. Documentation is not available for the Umpqua drainage specifically, due to a lack of archaeological work along the main stem of the Umpqua River,especially from Rose burgto Scottsburg. Others postulate local popUlation growth and increased exploitation of resourcesin both low andupland groups occurred at this time. 2500 BC - 1600 AD. Two separate cultural refinements took place in approximately 2500 Be. One was a late andmore specialized phase of the uplandhunting adaptation. The other was thecoast al adaptation. The uplandhunters beganmaking contacts with other groups. Trade, raiding and other specialized migrationwere common cultural functions. Artifacts identified as relating to these cultures include mortars and pestles, unique micro points presumably intrusive from the Willamette Valley, triangular-stemmedpoint styles, as well as scraping andinci sed tool complexes emerging at 1000 BC or slightly earlier. Later technological developments include hopper mortars and barbedpoints, along with the continuanceof earlier fo rms. Also, more permanent settlements were located in protected areas at higher elevations near permanent water supplies. On a global basis, manis a relative newcomer to thesea. Archaeological work at Umpqua­ Eden in Reedsport reveals a culturewell adapted to coastal resources,which included the harvesting of large fish, sea mammals, andunique coastal vegetation, as early as 1010 BC. 1500 - 1000 BC. Thisperiod in timeis referred to as theAthabaskan Intrusions. In this era, groupsof Nadene speakers(Athab askans) beganto move south from thewestern interior of Canada. The ultimate destination of these peoples (knownto us today a Apaches and Navajos) was Arizona 13 andNew Mexico. Theirmain travelroute appearsto have been throughthe Columbia River Plateau, then through the Grant BaSin to the Southwest. Small groups of these cultures are thought to have moved westward to the Cascades and down the major river valleys such as the Columbia, the Umpqua and the Rogue. Such movements explain the earlypresence of Athabaskan language enclaves in westernOr egon. The documentation of Athabaskan movements in archaeological records is difficultbeca use these people have not been identified with anydistinctive tool inventory. AD50 0 - 1800. This period oftime is referred to as the Ethnographic Present. Thispe riod is applied to native cultures as theyexisted just prior to any white contact andsubsequent influence. It is the "last trulynative" period or circumstance or a particularpeo ple. With the ethnographicpresent, we have thelast period oftra ditional Native Americanculture before white contact. As a result of that contact, change of lifeways, settlement patterns and generalized extinction are dominant themes. Ethnographic informationrelatin g to the Umpqua area is fo r the most partunrecor ded. Native Americans. The originof the term"Ump qua" has several explanations. It may have been derived fromwhite men hearingthe Indiansuse the expression "umpsaqua" meaning "across the river". Two other interpretations are"high or low water" or "thunder water," thelatter term referring to the roar of falls on the upper reaches of the river. Still another explanation is that Umpqua was thename of anIndian chief who drove all other tribesfrom the valley andthat his tribe was namedthe Umpquas in his honor. The Umpqua Indians were actually of several different linguistic groups. Those known as Upper Umpquas were thought to be an Athabascan group. Their lands stretched east from the present town of Winchester along the north fo rk of the Umpqua River to DiamondLa ke. Another band was located in thesouthern portion of theCounty. Thisban d is oftenreferred to as the "Cow Creeks" andwere apparently of Athabascan or Takelma origin.! The southern-mostban ds of the Kalapuyas resided along Elk and Calapooya Creeks. They were collectively known as the "Yoncallas" . The Kuitish or Lower Umpquas ranged from Scottsburg to the mouth of Umpqua River were related to other coastal bandsup to Yaquina Bay. ! See Appendix B fo r more concerning the Cow Creeks. 14 At the time the whites first settled in the region, Indian villages were reported at Camas Swale, Olalla, Camas Valley, Lookingglass, Kellogg, Winchester, Glenbrough, Yoncalla, Cow Creek, andRoseburg. Also, a mountain meadow, called "Illahee" located along the North Umpqua above Steamboat, was a favorite summer gathering place fo r the Umpquas and other groups, to include the Klickitat, Klamath, Kalapuya andModac, who met there once a year to gatherbe rries, trade, gamble, andrace their horses. The first contact between theIndians andfo reigners occurred during the exploration of the northwestcoast, whichmay have occurred in theearly 1800's. Even before actual settlement by the whites, there presence affected Indian populations in the fo rm of epidemic diseases. An epidemic of smallpox swept through thePa cificNorthwest as earlyas 178 2-83 and probably destroyed half the Indianpopulation where this disease struck. Lewis andClark noted the presence of venereal disease and by 18 10 it was reported thatthis disease was widespread. An epidemic of "intennittent fever" or "ague"spread from18 30 to 18 33. Fatalities among the Indianpopulations averaged about 75 percent, while in some cases entire villages were wiped out. The disease spread through the Willamette Valley (killing 6,000 to 7,000 Indians), the Umpqua River basin, over the Siskiyou Mountainsand into the Sacramento Valley. The Fur Trade. Euro-Americanintrusion in the Umpqua Valley beganwith the movement of furriers in thelate 1700's and theearly 1800's. At first,few furswere obtained by the white man because the Indianswere not interested in trading. However, this changedunder the white man's continual trading. The main items used in the furtrade were beads, cloth,old clothes, arms,blankets andshells. Inthe early years ofthe fur trade it was possible to obtain $20,000 worth of furs for $2 .00 worth of trinkets. Competition between rival British and Americanfur companies servedto eventually inflate prices. As competition for fur increased, theHudson' s Bay Company began saturating an areawith trappersuntil the resourceswere depleted, then theymoved to anotherarea. This tactic was effective as it kept competitors from exploiting
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