Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth proudly and embarrassingly declared that he only "speaks American" while in a room filled with leaders from Latin America.
Though the Russians may have been fucking around Oregon if a rather well traveled Native American from out east is to be believed.
The Russians were in Alaska, Oregon and parts of northern California in the 19th century. I’m not sure about Washington. They left examples of Russian architecture in Mendocino and Humboldt Bay, and a few place names such as Sebastopol in Sonoma County. Mainly fur trappers, though they did a bit of logging and fishing too. If your Native American source is implying far earlier contact, that might also be true but I don’t know of any evidence to support it.
It’s basically just his word for it. But he was in pretty constant contact with white people so I can assume he knew what he was looking at, this would’ve happened in the 1700s. As for what these possibly Russians were doing? Sounds like a slave raid by all accounts possibly out of Vladivostok or a similar port city, which basically garuntees that this was very illegal, also at best you’d probably get some landing sites and whatnot but I suspect that those have either been destroyed or are obscured at this point.
The Russians were in Alaska, Oregon and parts of northern California in the 19th century. I’m not sure about Washington. They left examples of Russian architecture in Mendocino and Humboldt Bay, and a few place names such as Sebastopol in Sonoma County. Mainly fur trappers, though they did a bit of logging and fishing too. If your Native American source is implying far earlier contact, that might also be true but I don’t know of any evidence to support it.
It’s basically just his word for it. But he was in pretty constant contact with white people so I can assume he knew what he was looking at, this would’ve happened in the 1700s. As for what these possibly Russians were doing? Sounds like a slave raid by all accounts possibly out of Vladivostok or a similar port city, which basically garuntees that this was very illegal, also at best you’d probably get some landing sites and whatnot but I suspect that those have either been destroyed or are obscured at this point.