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"I'm an Oregonian" I'm very proud to say that I am too.

I have a bunch of old pictures and personal journals featuring oregon when the railways were being built. They are from My great grandmother was one of the first woman switch line/telegraph operators for the railway 🚂. I love these personal accounts and pieces of history.

Really enjoyed that. Thanks Oregonians from London, UK!

I was recently out in Wasco County and found a cemetery with gravestones from the mid-1800s. Many of them witnessed Oregon becoming the 33rd state in the Union. Most of them had between 8-12 kids. The entire thing just felt surreal, but also I felt a deep connection to these people living in the era of this video. Awesome video as well, thanks for the share!

the estimated population of the Native Americans was around 300,000 according to this documentary. And by the 1830's, they had been reduced to around 15,000. This cuts my soul deeply, even with my love for my home state. The pain of that wound will take generations to heal from. Yet so many don't even acknowledge how bad the wound is.

2:45 If we can do that with our country, we really can make a better future. We have so many lessons we have learned, let’s just learn. 💕

Hometown I love the historical stuff of my hometown and I really enjoyed this and thank you for sharing everything that you know about the history of Roseburg Oregon

Amaaaazing!!!!???

I love my state

Was pretty lucky covered much of the Oregon Trail from Oregon City to Nebraska mostly from working on the track with Union Pacific. Could only imagine what it was like for instance the Celilo Falls and rapids that gave the name to The Dalles, my home base. So lucky and blessed were the original peoples. Fishing and hunting as a way of life compared to working all the time to get a couple of days off to fish and hunt and back to work for the rest of the year.

Awesome!👍😎🇨🇦

I love this documentary. I wish Oversimplified would give his full take on the history of the Oregon Country.

My ancestors came over I don’t have a Lotta photographs but I got a lot of documentation and I am proud of my history good and bad they also suffered it was a time of growth in the whole United States and we’re doing it again and again and bad as well

Heraldry is an underappreciated medium. The Great Seal of the State of Oregon is the sole example of the American Eagle facing left (sinister) toward the arrows. Our motto: "The Union" and the date :'1859' . . . a picture speaks a thousand words.

John McGloughlin looks like a kind of guy I would NOT want to cross!!

My third great grandfather is Joseph Lafayette Meek. ❤

Interesting.

Great video thank you OPB .

My great great great grandfather was part of the Champoe - The Clatsop are tribe. My father great great great grandfather was Joseph Gervais and he married the princess of the Clatsop tribe and she was baptized Marguerite

Tell me about the JM Sliker house 1890 in Eagle Creek 97022. Located on a portion of the Barlow road on the Clackamas River. I’ve made it back to Brown in the records.

And ⭕ what a state we're in...Sweet dreams of 🦉?

Cool

Next we should settle Mexico

Jim Bridger, Joseph Meek left both their daughters at the Whitman’s they were sick when the massacre happened they pas*** days after. My grandfather was angry over his Half indigenous daughter and Ms. Whitman since he took a fancy to her. 3 great grandfather Joseph Lafayette Meek.

The bias of OPB .... Oregon Public BIas is on full display vie the speakers they selected. Do your own homework.

18:46 And they don't stop coming, hopped in the wagon and they hit the ground running.

Oregon became a state on Saint Valentines Day in 1859. Salem is the capital of Oregon. Salem is short for Jerusalem.

You just totally skipped over the native history. Then rudely used the term Oregon Fever to describe the lies fed to travelers. 😮

Can I move there with my wife? She was born and raise in Salem. I'm from El Salvador!

Nothing about Astoria? Weird I thought it and Fort Clatsop , (Lewis and Clark's winter camp next to present day Astoria) were the reason / claim , the US used to get yhe area. Founded in 1811, 33 years before Oregon City was founded. But Otegon city was the first incorporated city west of the Rockies? Well that would make Adyoria the first city west of the Rockies, not not incorporated. I guess neing incorporated deletes the older city , and first city in Oregon, Astoria? Weird how Otegon City hets mentioned over and over, and not a single mention of Astoria. History of Oregon, or of the Willamette valley and the Portland area. I think the historians that wrote this must of forgot about the first city in Oregon, the city that was used to lay claim to the Us, including Lewis and Clark's expedition.

Good 👍

Well known question for you to blame the past for your present condition in your life

People have went thousands if miles for FREE stuff. Willing to risk life for FREE stuff. The easy way out! And NOW…people are called lazy when they want THEIR free stuff. Nothing has changed in almost 200 hundred years.

(OREJON) big ears!!! you're welcome!

Your history left out the real first government on the Bear Flag government of the country of California in 1946 before it was a state.

My great great gandpa elias wagner was salem. Funny how families die off.

Regarding McLoughlin: When a pioneer is described as "fair," it means that the person was an asshole to everyone, not just a few.

hello fellow canadians i am straight how about u

Define somewhat unpleasant at worst? Please. Denying the five for the second trial is My unpleasant at worst. Does it get worse than that? ❤

Damn, colonization is strong with this one.

I'm surprised by how many fools there are in the comments, blindly criticizing American history because it's the cool thing to do right now.

And there still not a lot of blacks in Oregon I when to school in Portland in the 50s and when to school with blacks

The evil that was done to the Native Americans, the river, and so much more ...

For thousands of years it worked out. The people of the land managed it extremely well. But it all went down hill when these guys showed up from Europe.

Oregon hunted stay away from the mountains. They walk threw 🧱 😉

Nothing says I don't want to live here than watching this video. I don't want to visit Oregon after watching. Why visit? I've never known hate. I might as well stay away. I might as well enjoy the real America. A place where I can be friends with my fellow citizen. Certainly not in Oregon. The warning is clear.

How do you manage to leave out all of southern Oregon's contributions to the States history ? Not one word of Jacksonville , the Gold rush, Rouge Indian Wars, Ft. Lane, Mt. Mc Loughlin, the Applegate trail etc. nothing south of the Willamette valley as usual.... Then you flat landers wonder why we in southern Oregon wish to seperate from you. We pay taxes and your salary too.

Inaccurate - at best.

What an "anti-pioneer" report. Progress!

Amazing documentary that it took the Anglo-American white colonizers only 150 years to trash and destroy one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Wow, this is so dated and problematic. The wording itself is heavily skewed towards settler colonialism. I’m ashamed. I hope someday this document is held up as a teaching tool to illustrate how white supremacy used to be indoctrinated into the minds of those without critical thinking skills. I sincerely hope that in the years since this video was originally produced you have managed to do better. Rethink some of the language used here. This was not free “public lands”, there were diverse communities who were exterminated when they became inconvenient. No wonder they resisted. It’s nice you tried to show some diversity and absolutely no offense to the talking heads, nor to the re-enactors but the voice over narration gets things so very wrong. We weren’t “immigrants”, we are occupiers. We have to accept that as fact and start telling our kids the truth, so we can move on as a people and establish a more just and equitable future. Or do you go into your neighbors yard and just take their stuff because you wanted it and they didn’t appear to be using it??? I mean… “treaties”…? Uhhh surejan. Again, nothing against public broadcasting, you guys are great, maybe this video is 20 years old, those hairstyles made it hard to tell. Okay, good talk. Love you Oregon 😘😘😘 #bffs4life #oregonismagic #ilysm

Sounds a lot like Ukraine and Russia. And look who we support. We’re such hypocrites.

What a communist program

Good Lord, Oregon's history is so far worse than Mississippi's history 😳

"I am an Oregonian". Dr. Sir Jean-Baptiste McLoughlin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McLoughlin

Oh, yeah?! Now explain how Whoregone became a tax slave colony.. asking for an enslaved Ukrainian friend of mine...

Oregon is the best.

And there still not a lot of blacks in Oregon I when to school in Portland in the 50s and when to school with blacks