Native Americans

Oral history interview with Richard D. Daugherty, conducted by Clark Hansen on January 24, 2000, as part of the Columbia River Dissenters Oral History Series. Daugherty talks about his work as an archaeologist excavating the Marmes Rockshelter site in Washington. He discusses the flooding of the site after the failure of a levee that had been built to protect the site from inundation by construction of the Lower Monumental Dam on the Snake River in 1966.

Oral history interview with Bill W. Evans, conducted by Clark Hansen on April 10, 1999, as part of the Columbia River Dissenters Oral History Series. Evans discusses the history of the area near Lake Chelan, Washington, the town of Manson, and the Colville Indian Reservation, particularly how the area and its people were affected by irrigation projects and dam construction in the Columbia River Basin.

This collection consists of 24 black and white photographic prints depicting Native American students and the grounds at the Indian Training School in Forest Grove, Oregon, circa 1882. The school opened in 1880 and eventually moved to a location near Salem in 1885, and was renamed the Chemawa Indian School.

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.

Oral history interview with Gilbert A. Giles, conducted by Clark Hansen on October 3, 1999, as part of the Columbia River Dissenters Oral History Series. Giles discusses how the construction of dams on the Columbia River affected salmon populations and the Native people who lived along the river.

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.

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.

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.