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  • As a resident of the Pacific Northwest, there are so many Native names on everything, but the tribes themselves are unknown.

    Example - Multnomah County:

    The Multnomah were a division of the Chinook people, but I’d wager most folks aren’t even aware that Multnomah were a people.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multnomah_people

    “In 1830, a disease generally thought to have been malaria devastated the Multnomah villages.[2] Within five years, the village of Cathlapotle was abandoned and was briefly inhabited by the Cowlitz tribe. The Multnomah people had nearly been wiped out by the year 1834 due to malaria and smallpox outbreaks. With only a few Multnomah left by the year 1910, the remaining people were transferred to the Grand Ronde Community which is also located in the Northwest of Oregon.[3]”