Dr. Tricia Gates Brown is an independent scholar and an editor for the Anthropology Department at Portland State University. From 2005-2009 she served as Curator and Program Director for the Cannon Beach History Center. Her writings appear regularly in journals and other publications, as well as in her newsletter religionmatters.substack.com.
Contribution
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.