Labeled "This Land Was Theirs," this film consists primarily of silent footage of the Oregon coast interspersed with on-camera narration related to the history and traditions of Native American peoples along the coast. The narrative clips identify the film's locations as Cape Perpetua, Coos Bay and Bullards Beach State Park. The narrators comment on foods commonly gathered by the coastal peoples; artifacts found at a kitchen midden located south of present-day Yachats, Oregon; and a massacre of Coquille men and women carried out by white miners during the winter of 1854. One specific narrator also shares a few stories related to the life of his Native American grandmother and her ancestors.
Digitized from a film reel held in the KOAC-TV Films (FV 207:002), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.
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