Oregon History 101 - "A Century by Sea and Land: Explorers and Traders in Oregon Country, 1741-1850"
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Presented by Dr. William Lang, Emeritus Professor of History, Portland State University and Gregory Shine, Chief Ranger and Historian, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
Recorded on Monday, October 6, 2014
McMenamins Kennedy School, Portland, Oregon
During a century of sometimes intense maritime and terrestrial exploration, EuroAmericans sailed and trekked to Oregon Country and made charts and maps that informed the world about the Northwest Coast of North America and the interior Pacific Northwest. Their experiences, the effect they had on Native people, and the interest they stimulated about the region set agendas for subsequent events that affect Oregonians to the present day.
Using knowledge gained from explorers, British and American fur companies envisioned control of the rich natural resources of the Oregon Country-especially its fur-bearing animals, timber, and salmon-as the path to profit and power in what soon became a jointly-occupied territory.
In the process of extracting key resources, these fur traders transformed area networks of commerce, transportation, and communication; established new communities; linked the Oregon Country to the global marketplace; and helped lay the groundwork for key political boundaries, cities, and transportation corridors known in Oregon today.
William L. Lang is Emeritus Professor of History at Portland State University, the founding director of the Center for Columbia River History, and founding editor of The Oregon Encyclopedia. He is the author and editor of many books and articles on the Columbia River and the Pacific Northwest. Gregory P. Shine is the Chief Ranger and Historian at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site and the Northwest Cultural Resources Institute. The author of numerous articles, studies, and digital publications, he serves on the editorial board of the Oregon Encyclopedia and is an adjunct faculty member in the History Department at Portland State University.
Many of the images prepared by the speakers for Oregon 101 presentations are copyrighted by institutions other than the Oregon Historical Society. The Oregon Historical Society may not make those images available on the Web, so the PowerPoints have been excluded from the videos.
would be nice to see the charts and images the speaker is referring to.
No shit! 🤦♂️
Nice lecture, wish i could see the maps they are referring to.
Why did you leave the maps out? More sense than looking at the speaker's face I think.
i donno , if you look in his glasses when he looks at his slide you can see it for a split second hahaha
Yeah, somebody really should contact the lecturer, obtain the presentation slides, and edit the video to include them.
Nah
My grandmother family worked for the Hudson Bay company. During that time frame.
As an anthropologist in Oregon I'm dissappointed that there was not more information about the indigenous groups that were an integral part to European and American exploration. If all you're going to say about them is that they were "unenlightened", you should discuss the historical context of that term so as not to reinforce the longstanding idea that they were savages sitting lower on the 'social hierarchy'.
Did you not listen to the beginning?
He actually said they were not unenlightened if you listen again.
Is there anyway to get the visual aids and images that accompanied this presentation?
Unfortunately, neither the speaker nor OHS has the rights to display the images used in the slides online. We do try and include a speaker's slides whenever we can.
Dear Oregon Historical society
Historic maps from the 1500s to 1800s are not copyrighted any longer, they are publically available. Why bother with this worry wart nonsense? Noones going to sue you over publishing early exploration maps.
Total BS the Indians were the first explorers
Some asian ships made it too, the stone anchors are found in California.