Kalapuya

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The Kalapuya are a group of North American Indian tribes that are linguistically and culturally closely related . They traditionally live in the US state of Oregon in the Willamette Valley .

Of the likely original 15,000 tribe members, around 600 members currently remain through disease and displacement, most of whom belong to the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon .

The Kalapuya spoke three different languages ​​from the Kalapuya language group : North Kalapuya, Central Kalapuya, and South Kalapuya. The Kalapuya languages ​​became extinct in the middle of the 20th century .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Judy Rycraft Juntunen, May D. Dasch, Ann Bennett Rogers: The World of the Kalapuya. A Native People of Western Oregon. Benton County Historical Society and Museum, Philomath OR 2005, ISBN 0-9764024-0-8 , p. 13 (English).
  2. ↑ Melville Jacobs: Kalapuya Texts . University of Washington Press, Seattle 1945.
  3. ↑ Berman, H. (1990). An Outline of Kalapuya Historical Phonology. International Journal of American Linguistics , 56 (1), 27-59.

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