Relic Hunting, Archaeology, and Loss of Native American Heritage at the Dalles

Abstract

Excavation of Wake Map mound will be resumed this summer by university students who will fi nd their excavation of last year sadly addled by pot hunters disclaimed by the Oregon Archaeological Society . . . most of the area around it [the mound] are beginning to look as if they had been worked over by a gold dredge. . . . The Indians don’t like it but aren’t doing anything about it. “It doesn’t look right,” said Chief Charley Kahelamat, who lives at the mound. “All those things belong to the Indians.” — Oregonian, March , 