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The Multnomah and the related Clackamas tribe lived in a series of villages along the river near the mouth of the Willamette River on the Columbia (the Willamette was also called the "Multnomah" in the early 19th century). According to archaeologists, the villages in the area were home to approximately 3,400 people year-round, and as many as 8,000 during fishing and wapato -harvesting seasons (wapato was a marsh-grown plant like a potato or onion that formed a staple of their diet).

The villages were home to at least 3,400 Multnomah and Clackamas people year-round and as many as 8,000 during fishing and wapato-harvesting seasons, archaeologists report. One of the larger villages, Cathlapotle was located in present-day Clark County, Washington at the confluence of the Lewis River with the Columbia and was visited by the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1805. According to their journals, Lewis and Clark found 14 houses in the village, most of them ranging from 14-by-20 ft (4.3 m by 6.0 m) to about 40-by-100 ft (12 m by 30 m). They reported that approximately 900 people lived the villages.

The houses of the Multnomah, like the other Chinookan peoples, were largely longhouses made of Western RedcedarWestern Redcedar Western Redcedar shoot with mature cones Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Pinophyta Class: Pinopsida Order: Pinales Family: Cupressaceae Genus Thuja Species Thuja plicata Western Redcedar Thuja plicata a species of thu planks. The size of a home depended on the wealth of the owner, with the larger houses furnishing living quarters for up to 100 people. Within each house, a particular family had a separate cubicle separated by woven mats that were approximately the size of a stall in a modern barn. Each family had its own fire, with the families also sharing a communal central fire in the household.

The Multnomah diet included salmonThis article is about the fish. For the color, see salmon (color). Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the Salmonidae family. Several other fishes in the family are called trout. Salmon live in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans., eelAn eel is any of the fishes in the order Anguilliformes. The flat and transparent larva of the eel is called a leptocephalus. Short movie of migrating glasseels: The fresh water eels unagi and marine eels ( Conger eel, anago are commonly used in Japaneses, sturgeonSturgeon (Acipenser) is the name given to a small group of fishes, of which some twenty different species are known †, from European, Asiatic and North American rivers. They pass a great part of the year in the sea, but periodically ascend large ri, elkThe word Elk has several possible meanings: In Europe, Elk is the animal known in North America as the Moose Alces alces . In North America, Elk refers to the Wapiti Cervus elaphus , known as the Red Deer in Europe. Elk is an old British and Irish name fo, water birds and especially wapato.

In 1830Events February 3 The previously autonomous state of Greece gains full independence from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence. Negotiations for the borders between the two states continue until 1832, under the supervisio, a disease generally thought to have been malariaMalaria ( Italian: bad air ; formerly called ague or marsh fever in English) is an infectious disease which causes about 500 million infections and 2 million deaths annually, mainly in the tropics and sub-Saharan Africa. The protozoan cause of malaria was devastated the Multnomah villages. Within five years, Cathlapotle was abandoned and was briefly inhabited by the CowlitzCowlitz is a group of Native American peoples from what is now western Washington state in the United States. The Cowlitz tribe actually consists of two distinct subtribes: The Upper Cowlitz, or Taidnapam, and the Lower Cowlitz. Linguistically, the Cowlit tribe.