GC602V4 Mondo's NAT #580 - Tualatin
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: mondou2 @ | Hide Date: 07/23/2015 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 40.921 W104° 37.024 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
       

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Native American Tribes series.

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Tualatin

Tualatin (properly pronounced 'twäl?.tun in English) was the name of a collection of related but independent villages whose members spoke a dialect of Northern Kalapuya, the northernmost of three languages composing the Kalapuyan language-family. Synonyms include Atfalati, Tfalati, and Twalati (variously spelled).

Sixteen Tualatin villages are known by name: these stretched through Tualatin Plains (modern-day Beaverton, Hillsboro, Mountaindale, Forest Grove), the Wapato Valley (Gaston), and the Chehalem and North Yamhill Valleys (Newberg, Carlton, Yamhill). Eight of these villages were clustered around Wapato Lake, a former marshy lake at Gaston noted for its abundance of wapato (Sagittaria latifolia), the tubers of which were an important Native staple food.

Tualatins lived about half the year in dirt-banked, semi-excavated winter houses built of cedar-bark slabs or cedar planks lashed to a rectangular framework. They spent the drier part of the year camped across their tribal territory in pursuit of game, fish, and a variety of roots, seeds, and berries. By carefully preserving and storing these provisions, Tualatins had time during the winter months for storytelling, religious ceremonialism, as well as household tasks such as tool making and basket weaving.

The basic unit of Tualatin society was the autonomous winter village, consisting of one to several extended families each tracing kinship through the male line.  Women usually married into this group from outside. Larger villages had one or more chiefs, who with their immediate families were distinguished by the quality of their apparel and the value of their property. Property included slaves who lived in the household with their masters.  Slave status was hereditary, and slaves were not permitted to subject their infants' heads to frontal-occipital flattening, the mark of free birth among lower Columbia Native people.

Tualatin religion revolved around the individual's relationship with one or more helpful spirits, first sought on pre-adolescent quests and expressed in later life through songs performed at winter spirit-dances. Individuals having relationships with particularly strong spirits might become shamans, called on to treat more serious illnesses.

Tualatins suffered greatly from introduced diseases. Only about sixty-five still survived in 1855, when the U.S. government concluded a treaty with all of the Willamette Valley tribes. In 1856, the tribe was removed to Grand Ronde Reservation, some sixty miles southwest of their original homeland. Descendants of the Grand Ronde Tualatins continue to live in the Grand Ronde area and in other Native communities of the Pacific Northwest.

05/31/2019 By CacheDeposit
TFTC

03/30/2019 By team.STEWART817
Love the opportunity to learn something new and cache. TFTC

03/24/2019 By poolsharkycat
we saw some of yours on this road so off to get them.

03/24/2019 By imusttravel2000
Huge critter hole. Replaced cache on other side of hint.

11/23/2018 By lasouthpaw
This was the site of yet another vicious tumbleweed attack. I was lucky to escape with my life.

Oh my, where to begin. I try not to do cut and paste logs, but I didn't take the best notes today and we hit a ton of caches today. It's official, peacelovepi and I are working on the 360 degrees of Colorado challenge and I'm racing to get to 3000 finds. We came out to get some rays around the airport today. The weather didn't look like it was going to be bad, but we both underestimated the power of the wind. And the tumbleweeds. We did some power trailing, she was the driver and I was the runner. LOL I got absolutely accosted by tumbleweeds today - at multiple stops! I even had thorns in my pockets by the end of our run! Between the chill and the wind, logs were signed as "la pi" and they were usually signed wherever we could get to easiest/first. I thought we were going to cache all day, but by the time we got to the end of the listed caches here we were ready to call it a day. A big thank you to all the COs for the smileys and the 360 degree rays! This one was find #2959 for me.

10/22/2018 By Krystalroze
Left a goodie. Tftc

09/28/2018 By djkfisher
Out from Bend Oregon for a little a little work and a little caching. Thanks so much to all the cacher’s that have placed these smiles for all to find.

There was a well worn trail right to the cache

We are Geocaching the world one cache at a time!  May the wind be at your back and the sun shine warm upon your face!

Found on my iPhoneX using the Cachly APP

09/03/2018 By Mean Kitty
Find #48856

Its been a long hot summer in Texas, I've been trying to get out and do a caching trip a couple of times this summer, but it never worked out. Finally managed to get a week off, and am so happy to be out here in Colorado. The weather if perfect, and there is a load of caches that need my name on Thanks so much for the hide mondou2, I really enjoyed finiding this cache!

07/29/2018 By Seisbery
Tftc

07/26/2018 By Aidfuts
Trying to get the Dragon Hidden Creature on the last day, of course it's raining. Took a picture of cache instead of signing log.

07/15/2018 By fearthefish
Apparently I am no longer able to find a cache without being accompanied by the lovable and always cheerful herndonrd. Today was no exception, as I was out and about caching with herndonrd simply because I make him look good. He typically finds the caches while I look in all the wrong places. Today was an especially exciting day since I let him drive, which is like going to a carnival except you can't get fried Twinkies.

But I digress.

Today my goal was to find 24 caches (no more, no less) so I could complete another challenge that I signed far too long ago. Since herndonrd was occupied operating the heavy machinery, it was my job to do the fetching. Fortunately this was a quick and easy one. After I did the whole sign and replace thing we celebrated our victory by getting in the car and then driving off to another cache. Thanks for the fun hide and for getting me outside on such a beautiful day.

P. S. No animals (humans or otherwise) were harmed in the writing of this log.

07/13/2018 By tc54915
Had the whole day to waste waiting for my coworker to get into town, so I figured I would grab some easy ones. This is so not fun doing park and grabs by yourself. Oh well...TFTC

07/08/2018 By GanderGoose
Discovered a nice row of 22 caches on the geocaching map so I headed south on a beautiful summer day in pursuit of the dragon souvenir. It was a peaceful road this morning. Thanks for the history and placement, mondou2!