Welcome to my website! For fifty years I have been researching and writing about the early history and traditional cultures of the Native American peoples of the Pacific Northwest. This website is an introduction my research and the books that have resulted from it. I look forward to sharing this information with you.
— Robert T. Boyd
submitted to the Oregon Historical Society. They are: “Before Portland: an introduction to the Indigenous People of the Portland Basin,” “Epidemics among Portland Basin Native Peoples, 1781 to 1834,” “A Timeline for the Indigenous Peoples of the Portland Basin, 1446-1856,” … Read More
submitted to Oregon State University Press for review. The chapters are “Kalapuyan Disease and Demography to 1848″ (33 pp) and “Apocalypse to Reconfiguration: Kalapuyan Population Trends, 1849-1889″ (with David Lewis), 26 pp. Volume one of Kalapuyans of the Willamette Valley (David Lewis, … Read More
188 page draft manuscript completed January 2025. My goals in writing this manuscript were two: first, to gain control of all the data for an assigned chapter on Kalapuyan fire use for the in-process book Kalapuyans of the Willamette Valley (Lewis, … Read More
is published by Oregon State University Press. Other than a few corrections, the text of all contributions remains the same as in the first, 1999 edition. The updated edition includes a new 10 page foreword by fire ecologist and Karuk … Read More
is published in the Seattle Times, December 10, 2021. intended to place the covid epidemic in the historical context of “new”/introduced diseases in Pacific Northwest history
The paperback reprint of The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence… is published by the University of Washington Press.