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Native Americans

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

J. Otto George papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2578
Abstract

Collection consists primarily of a typescript photocopy compilation, "Old Stories of the Arctic Eskimo," 1978. Also included are two letters to Ruth Whitcomb regarding the Finnish community in Clatskanie, Oregon.

Dates: 1968-1980

Great Northern calendar portraits

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5343
Abstract

Collection consists of color prints, based on original portraits by Winold Reiss, that were used in Great Northern Railway calendars, as well as full pages from the calendars.

Dates: circa 1931-1932

David Hall papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2223
Abstract

Collection consists of manuscript financial claims submitted to the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (Indian Dept. U.S. Government) from David Hall, 1855-1859, for supplies given to Native Americans in the Oregon Territory while acting as a special agent for the bureau.

Dates: 1855-1859

Washington Hall papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 944
Abstract

Collection includes an affidavit and agreements between Washington Hall and the lower band of the Chinook Indian Tribe regarding Hall's land holdings at Chinook Point in Pacific County, Washington.

Dates: 1848-1851

J.H. Horner papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 6031
Abstract

Papers of a Wallowa County, Oregon, official and amateur historian, consisting primarily of a manuscript of his unpublished book "Wallowa River and Valley," as well as correspondence with Otis Halfmoon and other documents.

Dates: 1889-1985

John B. Horner collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 794
Abstract

Collection consists of materials by or belonging to John B. Horner that concern Oregon-related historical topics. These include diagrams and documents concerning the Kalapuya mounds; the text of an address Horner delivered to the Oregon Pioneer Association; and a letter from Gertrude Balch Ingalls with a biographical sketch of her brother, Frederic Homer Balch. Horner (1856-1933) taught English and history at Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University).

Dates: circa 1902-1972

Indian training schools photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 736
Abstract

Small collection of 14 black-and-white photographs, most of which depict students and scenes at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Also included are two group portraits of students at the Indian Training School in Forest Grove, Oregon.

Dates: circa 1870-1902

The inside of a house in Oonalashka

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5048
Abstract

Three engravings in various sizes, made from the same drawing by John Webber, artist for the third voyage of James Cook. The image, titled "The Inside of a Home in Oonalashka," depicts Native adults and children at various activities inside a dwelling with a thatched roof in Unalaska.

Dates: circa 1785

Francis S. Landrum collection on Captain Jack's capture

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 954
Abstract

Collection includes typescript photocopies of reports on the capture of Captain Jack, Modoc chief, and other Indians of the Modoc Indian War, collected from available sources by Francis S. Landrum.

Dates: 1965

Oral history interview with James K. Logan

 Collection
Identifier: SR 1932
Abstract

Oral history interview with James K. Logan conducted by Toni R. Black Cloud from April 12 to May 23, 2002, as part of the Radical Elders oral history series. Logan discusses his early life as a homeless teenager, his recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction, and his involvement with the American Indian Movement.

Dates: 2002 April 12-May 23