Ki-a-Kuts Falls

Ki -a- Kuts Falls called a 12.2 m high waterfall running on the Tualatin River in Washington County, Oregon, United States. The waterfall was only discovered in 1993 at the remote headwaters of the river and lies at an altitude of 396 m. He was named after Ki -a- Kuts, the last chief of the once living there tribe of Atfalati.

History

In July 1993, a group of eight hikers explored the headwaters of the Tualatin River. During this walk, the group came across the nichtkartierten waterfall. After returning, the group continued to ensure that the waterfall was entered in the cards and given a name by the United States Board on Geographic Names and federal agencies. First name as Lost Falls and River Keepers If proposed before the group in the name of Ki -a- Kuts Falls agreed to honor the former inhabitants of the river valley. The competent authority of Oregon accepted the name on June 10, 1999.

In a ceremony site, the waterfall was baptized on 21 June 1999 with the participation of representatives of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde. Ki -a- Kut is the name of the last chief of the area formerly living Indians from the tribe of Atfalati that belonged to the Kalapuya language Grupe. They inhabited the valley at the Tualatin River before the arrival of white settlers and were decimated by epidemics after the Columbian Exchange at the beginning of the 19th century. The survivors were expelled from their land and settled with members of other tribes in the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation in what is now Polk County.

Description of the waterfall

Ki -a- Kuts Falls has a total height of 12.2 m. He collapsed as a simple cascade down in a narrow gully and drops into a water-filled pool at its base, which is shielded by trees from view. The fact that the river makes a sharp bend at this point, contributed to the fact that the waterfall was not marked on maps and were not discovered until so late. The waterfall is located about 520 m above (west of ) the mouth of Maple Creek in the Tualatin River and approximately 2200 m north of the Barney reservoir and thus west of the town of Gaston and Henry Hagg Lakes, approximately 5.5 km east of the border with the Tillamook County within the Tillamook State Forests. Geographical names with hyphens are often rejected by the United States Board of Geographic Names, in this case, the name was accepted, however, to honor the Indian chief. The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde had demanded that the last part of the name is spelled with a K instead of C as the proposed name originally was.