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What happened when a Native American woman refused to marry the 'white man's way'

ASTORIA — The Clatsop County Historical Society’s lecture series, Thursday Night Talks, continues Dec. 21 with a look into the county’s first known probate case.

The Oregon Territorial Court Journal, recently found in the basement of the Astoria Library, sheds new light on the county’s first probate case, which was so controversial it had to be decided by the Oregon Territory’s Supreme Court in 1854.

http://www.coastweekend.com/cw/coastal-life/20171218/what-happened-when-a-native-american-woman-refused-to-marry-the-white-mans-way

 

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