submitted to the Oregon Historical Society. They are: “Before Portland: an introduction to the Indigenous People of the Portland Basin,” “Epidemics among Portland Basin Native Peoples, 1781 to 1834,” “A Timeline for the Indigenous Peoples of the Portland Basin, 1446-1856,” … Read More
submitted to Oregon State University Press for review. The chapters are “Kalapuyan Disease and Demography to 1848″ (33 pp) and “Apocalypse to Reconfiguration: Kalapuyan Population Trends, 1849-1889″ (with David Lewis), 26 pp. Volume one of Kalapuyans of the Willamette Valley (David Lewis, … Read More
188 page draft manuscript completed January 2025. My goals in writing this manuscript were two: first, to gain control of all the data for an assigned chapter on Kalapuyan fire use for the in-process book Kalapuyans of the Willamette Valley (Lewis, … Read More
is published by Oregon State University Press. Other than a few corrections, the text of all contributions remains the same as in the first, 1999 edition. The updated edition includes a new 10 page foreword by fire ecologist and Karuk … Read More
is published in the Seattle Times, December 10, 2021. intended to place the covid epidemic in the historical context of “new”/introduced diseases in Pacific Northwest history
The paperback reprint of The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence… is published by the University of Washington Press.
2018-2021 Eight) articles were published in the online Oregon Encyclopedia: Indian Use of Fire in Oregon, Native Art of the Wapato Valley, Wapato (Wappato) Valley Indians, Disease Epidemics among Indians, 1770s-1850s, Wascopam Mission, … Read More