The Portland Metro area rests on traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River creating communities and summer encampments to harvest and use the plentiful natural resources of the area" (Portland Indian Leaders Roundtable, 2018).

As guests on these lands, we respect the work of the Indigenous people, and will make ongoing efforts to acknowledge the history and future of Oregon’s Indigenous people.

To learn more about Portland's Native community, please read Leading with Tradition.