Dr. Douglas Deur is a research professor in the Anthropology Department at Portland State University. His work focuses on the traditional significance of particular landscapes and natural resources to Indigenous communities, especially the Native peoples of Northwestern North America. He also directs studies for tribes and the National Park Service, documenting Native American ties to particular parks and other protected lands.
Contributions
Before the resort town of Cannon Beach, Oregon, a Tillamook tribal village—NeCus’—sat along the tiny brackish bay where Ecola Creek crosses the sandy beach. The Lewis and Clark Expedition journals provide a tantalizing but fragmentary glimpse of this community.
By the time of Lewis and Clark’s sojourn at the mouth of the Columbia River in the winter of 1805-1806, sea otter hunts and trading ventures had been at white heat for twenty years
