-
Wapato can mean: Any of
various plants in the
genus Sagittaria Wapato, Washington, a town
named after the
plant in the
State of
Washington in the United...
-
Institute of
Geography and History: 127. JSTOR 43996285., s.v.
Swamp Potato (
wappato)
Oregon "Native
American Ethnobotany Database".
Botanical Research Institute...
- "I
entered this river...called Multnomah...from a
nation who
reside on
Wappato Island, a
little below the enterence" (quoted from
Willamette Landings...
-
people year-round, and as many as 8,000
during fishing and
wappato-harvesting
seasons (
wappato is a marsh-grown
plant like a
potato or
onion and a staple...
- the
indigenous po****tion:
trading beaver skins, berries, salmon, and
wappato.
Meriwether Lewis commented between their variance in
speech from the tribes...
- The
early 19th century
explorers Lewis and
Clark called it
Wappato Inlet after Wappato Island, the name they used for
Sauvie Island. In the 1840s, nautical...
- city of Gaston. The
district was
established about 1852 and
later the
Wappato (511J) and
Yamhill (555J)
districts in
neighboring Yamhill County merged...
