Wapato Island

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Wapato Island is the historical name for Sauvie Island, a large, agriculturally rich island in the Columbia River near Portland, Oregon.

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Wapato Island canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf aquatic plant
historical place name
island
alsoKnownAs Sagittaria latifolia
associatedWithPeople Chinookan peoples
Multnomah people
currentNameOf Wapato Island
hasCharacteristic agriculturally rich
hasEcosystemType floodplain island
hasHistoricalName Wapato Island
hasLandUse agriculture
wildlife habitat
historicalNameOf Sauvie Island
linked to: sauvie Island
historicalSignificance important indigenous food-gathering area
locatedIn Columbia River floodplain
Oregon
United States
locatedInRegion Pacific Northwest
locatedInRiver Columbia River
locatedNear Portland, Oregon
linked to: Portland
locatedUpstreamFrom confluence of Willamette River and Columbia River
modernName Sauvie Island
linked to: sauvie Island
namedFor wapato plant
nameLanguage Chinookan languages
near Sauvie Island Wildlife Area
partOf Multnomah County, Oregon
linked to: Multnomah County

lower Columbia River region
separatedFrom mainland Oregon by Columbia River channels
usedHistoricallyFor indigenous agriculture
wetland root harvesting

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sauvie Island hasHistoricalName Wapato Island
subject linked to: sauvie Island
Sauvie Island hasHistoricalName Wapato Island
subject linked to: Wapato Island
Sauvie Island currentNameOf Wapato Island
subject linked to: Wapato Island