"Expired Native American" doesn't reflect Oregon's or the Nation's history.  Dead Indian does.  Nothing about the name explains the misfortune of one person.  But it does give a geographical focal point to one person's demise.  Not much of a statement about centuries of dedicated genocide,  but it does chip a little mortar out of the wall of indifference and denial that long after Lincoln freed the African,  Indian,  White  Euro-trash slaves,  the official position of this Nation was to continue  the genocide,  the extirpation,  of resisting Native Americans.  When was Wounded Knee?  1890?  My grandparents were alive then,   still living in Europe,   25 years after the end of the Civil War.