The viewpoint for the Falls also provides a view across the Willamette River to Canemah, Oregon. Canemah ("Canoe Place") was originally a Native American settlement, which being just upriver from the Falls, served as a popular portage site for downriver canoe travelers. The Calapooya tribe that lived here extracted heavy tolls from members of other tribes who wanted to use the portage. Eventually, those tribes banded together and killed the "Canemah" (also used as an honorific for the chief of the controlling tribe). Such battles for tolling privileges continued and many Canemahs were killed.