Kalapuya people
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1500 CE to 2057 CE
The Kalapuya (also Calapooia, Calapuya, Calapooya, Kalapooia, or Kalapooya) are a Native American ethnic group and are members of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon.
The Kalapuya tribes' traditional homelands were the Willamette Valley of present-day western Oregon in the United States, area bounded by the Cascade Mountains at the east and the Oregon Coast Range at the west, the Columbia River at the north to the Calapooya Mountains of the Umpqua River at the south.
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The Hudson's Bay Company controls the fur trade in the Willamette Valley and the rest of Oregon Country in the 1820s and 1830s from its Columbia District headquarters at Fort Vancouver.
The Willamette Valley is largely inhabited by bands of the native Kalapuya tribe throughout the nineteenth century.
As many as ninety percent of the Kalapuya may have died as a result of an epidemic of "fever and ague" that hit the Willamette Valley between 1830 and 1833.