French Metis in the Willamette Valley

I wrote for our local newspaper, the Register Guard, a piece about the Quebecois in early Oregon, particularly on the French Prairie. Here's the link to Oregon's early pioneer history has a French accent. A relevant photo from the trip Josh and I took to St. Paul back in mid February:

This is the first of twelve panels listing the people buried in the cemetery (according to parish records, the gravestones are all gone.