Native American families living in the South Umpqua Valley have been picking mountain huckleberries for generations. A member of the Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua Tribe, Emaline Young, born in 1905, described participating from the age of four in the tribe’s annual berry-picking tradition.

As It Was: Tribes Gather for Annual Huckleberry Picking

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