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===Clackamas Indians=== Prior to European settlement, there were several [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] groups living in the area that was to become Gladstone.<ref name="orcity">{{cite web |url=http://www.orcity.org/planning/brief-history-oregon-city |title=Brief History of Oregon City |date=2000 |website=Official City of Oregon City website |access-date=10 September 2014 |archive-date=13 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913015149/http://www.orcity.org/planning/brief-history-oregon-city |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1804, President [[Thomas Jefferson]] commissioned the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] to explore the [[Louisiana Territory]] and beyond.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lewis |first1=Meriwether |last2=Clark |first2=William |title=The Journals Of Lewis And Clark |ref=L&CJournals |publisher=Kessinger Publishing |year=2004 |pages=312 |isbn=9781419167997 }}</ref> Although the expedition passed only near the Gladstone β Oregon City locality on their way to and from the Pacific Ocean, via the [[Columbia River]], natives such as the [[Kalapuya]] and the [[Clackamas people]] told them about the area.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/read/?_xmlsrc=1806-04-03.xml&_xslsrc=LCstyles.xsl#n31040318 |title=The journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition |website=University of Nebraska Lincoln |access-date=January 16, 2014 |archive-date=2015-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123022118/http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/read/?_xmlsrc=1806-04-03.xml&_xslsrc=LCstyles.xsl#n31040318 |url-status=live }}</ref> In the subsequent years, successive waves of explorers and traders would introduce epidemics of [[cholera]] and [[smallpox]], which would take a heavy toll on the native peoples and contributed to a substantial reduction in population.<ref name="orcity"/> As [[Oregon City, Oregon|Oregon City]] was founded and European settlers began moving to the area, they petitioned their governments to remove the local natives from the land, so that the settlers could use it for farming and housing. The government allocated a [[Indian reservation|reservation]] for the natives and re-appropriated Gladstone for redevelopment.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usgennet.org/usa/or/county/clackamas/clackamas.html |title=The Clackamas Chinook people |last=Kohnen |first=Patricia |website=www.usgennet.org |access-date=10 September 2014 |archive-date=4 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204120520/http://www.usgennet.org/usa/or/county/clackamas/clackamas.html |url-status=live }}</ref> {{anchor|The Pow Wow tree}} {{as of|2014}}, the only extant remnant of the bygone natives is a large [[Acer macrophyllum|maple tree]] called the ''Pow Wow Tree'', which is listed as an [[Oregon Heritage Tree]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ortravelexperience.com/oregon-heritage-trees/pow-wow-tree/ |title=Pow-Wow Tree |publisher=Oregon Travel Experience |access-date=September 8, 2014 |archive-date=September 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908134215/http://ortravelexperience.com/oregon-heritage-trees/pow-wow-tree/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The tree still stands at Clackamas Boulevard, and is said to have marked the place where the different [[Native Americans in the United States|native]] tribes, mainly [[Clackamas (tribe)|Clackamas]] and [[Multnomah (tribe)|Multnomahs]], met to make trading agreements, settle community affairs, and conduct wedding ceremonies. In 1860, the Pow-Wow Tree was the location set for the first Clackamas County Fair. The following year, it was used as a parade ring for the first [[Oregon State Fair]] and marked the entrance. In 1937, the tree itself was celebrated with the Gladstone Pow-Wow Festival.<ref name=CoG/>
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