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    The Champoeg Meetings were the first attempts at formal governance by European-American and French Canadian pioneers in the Oregon Country on the Pacific...
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    referring to the edible root [púičuk], or yampa. Champoeg is best known as the site of a series of meetings held in the town during the 1840s. On February...
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    Northwest region of North America. Its formation had been advanced at the Champoeg Meetings since February 17, 1841, and it existed from May 2, 1843 until March...
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  • Native American encampment and later town known as Champoeg, Oregon. These first Champoeg Meetings eventually led to further discussions, and in 1843...
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    Joseph Meek (category Champoeg Meetings)
    settling in the Tualatin Valley, Meek played a prominent role at the Champoeg Meetings of 1843, where he was elected a sheriff. He was later elected to and...
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    settlers in the Willamette Valley established a provisional government at Champoeg. Political pressure in the United States urged the occupation of all the...
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    William Cannon (pioneer) (category Champoeg Meetings)
    2012. Retrieved January 26, 2015. Dobbs, Caroline C. (1932). "Men of Champoeg" (pdf). Daughters of the American Revolution. Archived from the original...
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    settling in the Tualatin Valley, Meek played a prominent role at the Champoeg Meetings of 1843, where he was elected as a sheriff. Later he served in the...
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    François X. Matthieu (category Champoeg Meetings)
    carpenter and a fur trader. Matthieu was among those who attended the Champoeg Meetings of May 1843, which voted to establish a Provisional Government of...
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    1854–1855 ones were. On April 12, 1851, at the Santiam Treaty Council in Champoeg, Oregon Territory, Santiam Kalapuya tribal leaders voiced strong opinions...
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    John Turner (fur trapper) (category Champoeg Meetings)
    preceded the Champoeg Meetings by three years. Mack and Meaghers counted Turner among the creators of the Provisional Government of Oregon at Champoeg, although...
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    years to gain ownership title to it. The provisional government formed at Champoeg had limited the land claims offered in the hope of preventing land speculation...
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  • sharing and formally established the borders on June 15, 1846. The Champoeg Meetings, including a constitutional committee, held from February 1841 until...
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    Robert Moore was an early settler who arrived in 1839—before the Champoeg Meetings—having been the senior member of the first attempt to create an American...
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    referred to the May 2, 1843, vote by Oregon Country settlers at the third Champoeg Meeting to form a provisional government independent of the United States and...
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  • William J. Bailey (category Champoeg Meetings)
    Country, particularly the Willamette Valley. Bailey participated in the Champoeg Meetings that led to the creation of a provisional government in Oregon. He...
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    Voyages of the Famed Quebec Mission to the Pacific Northwest, Portland, OR: Champoeg Press Franchère, Gabriel; Huntington, J. V. (1854), Narrative of a Voyage...
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    Jason Lee (missionary) (category Champoeg Meetings)
    finding a local regime necessary in and of itself. At the time of the Champoeg Meetings Lee was no longer an active participant of the political activities...
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    included a copy of the Organic Laws of Oregon adopted by settlers at the Champoeg Meetings. It was a popular guidebook for immigrants for the next ten years...
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    Tokugawa shogunate. His interest in the distant region likely began after meeting former PFC employee Russell Farnham. Floyd had the support of fellow Virginian...
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    Oregon Institute (category Champoeg Meetings)
    Willamette Valley. This meeting was one of the precursors to the formation of the Provisional Government of Oregon at Champoeg in May. In 1846 tuition...
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    Aaron Chamberlain, Champoeg Anderson Cox, Champoeg Robert Newell, Champoeg William H. Rector, Champoeg Willard Hall Rees, Champoeg Medorem Crawford, Clackamas...
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