Thanks, sard, those are very gracious words. I can't say I've been catching fish, just overloaded with work,...it's a good thing.

Concerning the Calapuya (there are actually three recognized spellings), There are estimates to the 3 to 4 thousand range, and I guess that depends on when you believe the white men first arriveed, if it was the Spanish, French, English or finally Lewis and Clark. At the turn of the century, if I remember correctly, there were less than one hundred documented Kalapuya. My great grandmother was one of those and had eighteen children. If anybody is wondering where, all of the sudden, all these natives came from collecting casino checks, that's pretty much how it happened. Those who survived made a conscious effort in some cases to have large families (many reasons for this obviously) and to try and speed up their understanding of the new world they were subject to. See if you can find the Applegate Report sometime, we had difficulty acquiiring it through the freedom of information act but it was pretty detailed about the native lifestyle and more specifically, my ancestors, before true manifest destiny manifested itself. But, that's off topic I suppose.

Just glad to see some thought filled retorts, in spite of my own trash talking, but if you can't trash talk anonymously in a chat forum, where can you?