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Cayuse Indians -- Missions

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Converting the West: a biography of Narcissa Whitman

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2934
Abstract

Typescript biography of Narcissa Whitman.

Dates: 1992

Mary E. Marsh reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 863
Abstract

Manuscript reminiscences of Mary E. Marsh, who came to Oregon with her family as a child, about the Whitman killings and her subsequent imprisonment by a group of Liksiyu (Cayuse) people for one month.

Dates: circa 1900

Marcus and Narcissa Whitman collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1203
Abstract Papers of and relating to Presbyterian missionaries Marcus Whitman (1802-1847) and Narcissa Whitman (1808-1847), including their correspondence, documents and recollections relating to their murder and the aftermath, and ephemera related to their memorialization. The Whitmans established a mission in 1836 at Waiilatpu near Walla Walla in the part of the Oregon Territory that would later become Washington state, with the goal of converting the local Cayuse people. The Whitmans' relations with...
Dates: 1834-1947; Majority of material found within 1834-1850

Whitman Mission research scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2929
Abstract

Scrapbook containing brochures, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, extracts from Narcissa Whitman's diary, and photographic postcards regarding the Whitman killings and the history of the Whitman Mission and the Cayuse Indians.

Dates: circa 1836-1966