LOCAL HISTORY: The removal of the Kalapuya people

November is Indigenous History Month, and this month I’ve been researching accounts of life in Salem when the Indigenous Kalapuyan people were still living here.

For thousands of years a diverse number of Indigenous tribes and bands inhabited what is now Salem here in the Willamette Valley.

The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Reservation and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians includes approximately 30 of these tribes and bands, some of whom used…