Whereas Portland is sympathetic to the natives' plight, our Asylum traces to an actual mental hospital, or sanitarium, in what was once a grassy wooded area with streams and creeks, between the Willamette River and SE 12th Street.
The process of urbanization long ago obliterated that property, but the memories linger in the place names.
The process of urbanization long ago obliterated that property, but the memories linger in the place names.
Hawthorne Blvd. is named for the leading doctor administrator of said institution, officially Oregon State's before facilities in Salem had been constructed.
One might disagree with my terminology in calling myself one of the immigrants, even though I was born in Chicago and my family goes back some generations on the North American continent (to even before 1776 along the Urner line), but that's how a lot of locals think of later archeological layers, as unwelcome interlopers but maybe with some welcome aspects as well, depending on the scenario we're talking about.
For example, those who considered themselves the original native Bhutanese ordered a kind of ethnic cleansing of their territory of later "immigrant populations" where the families in question might've been there for several generations and considered themselves citizens. We're not talking about a bloody genocide, just an expulsion. I'm not the expert. My family had left Thimphu before all this happened.
One might disagree with my terminology in calling myself one of the immigrants, even though I was born in Chicago and my family goes back some generations on the North American continent (to even before 1776 along the Urner line), but that's how a lot of locals think of later archeological layers, as unwelcome interlopers but maybe with some welcome aspects as well, depending on the scenario we're talking about.
For example, those who considered themselves the original native Bhutanese ordered a kind of ethnic cleansing of their territory of later "immigrant populations" where the families in question might've been there for several generations and considered themselves citizens. We're not talking about a bloody genocide, just an expulsion. I'm not the expert. My family had left Thimphu before all this happened.
So in that longer term sense, we might speak of "immigrants" from both the Atlantic and Pacific side (Eurasia from both directions), with their "conquer what you can" Doctrine of Discovery, whereas the natives were here already going back to Aztec and Inca times, and before.
It's easy enough to declare the Louisiana Purchase a done deal on paper, with signatures and everything, but the consequences of such declarations take awhile to unfold and sometimes encounter other narratives which don't come pre-equipped with a lot of buy-in.
History is continually being revised, even as "revisionists" are usually despised for what they're doing.
