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Native Americans

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:

Lee Moorhouse photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 104
Abstract

Photographs taken by Major Lee Moorhouse between approximately 1897 and 1919, depicting Cayuse, Umatilla, and other Native peoples and their settlements in the Columbia River Basin and Umatilla County; landscapes in Oregon and Montana; the Pendleton Round-Up in Pendleton, Oregon, and rodeos in other locations.

Dates: circa 1897-1919

Photographs of Native people fishing and buildings along the Columbia River

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1279
Abstract

Five black and white photographs with handwritten notes on the back that identify the images as being taken along the Columbia River in October 1942. Four of the photographs depict Native people fishing from platforms, probably at Celilo Falls; one shows wooden buildings and parked cars.

Dates: 1942 October

Navajos

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5332
Abstract

Color lithograph depicting two Navajo riders on horseback. The lithograph was made for the U. S. Pacific Railroad Exploration and Survey Report, 1854.

Dates: 1854

Robert Newell papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1197
Abstract

Papers of Robert Newell (1807-1869), a trapper, emigrant to Oregon, and Indian agent. Includes a typescript copy of Newell's diary of an 1868 voyage from Portland, Oregon, to Washington, D.C., with Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) leaders; handwritten copies of letters regarding William Gray's "History of Oregon"; and Newell's account of the 1843 meeting at Champoeg, which formed the provisional government of the Oregon Territory. Only a small number of the items are original documents.

Dates: 1829-1868

Notes relative to the original construction and the reconstruction of Chief Sonihat's "Whale House" New Kasaan, P.W.I.

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1099
Abstract

Manuscript notes, November 22, 1938, regarding the conservation of a piece of Haida Indian architecture in New Kasaan, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. The original Whale House in New Kasaan collapsed in the 1920s.

Dates: 1938 November 22

Pacific Northwest river scene photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1403
Abstract

Three photographs of unrelated river scenes in the Pacific Northwest, including depictions of seining and Native American fishing practices.

Dates: circa 1890-1916

Joel Palmer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 114
Abstract Papers of Joel Palmer (1810-1881) of Dayton, Oregon, and his family, including correspondence, diaries, government documents, and property records. The majority of papers relate to Palmer's roles as commissary general during the Cayuse War, as Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Oregon Territory in the 1850s, and as an Indian agent at the Siletz Reservation in the early 1870s. Family papers include correspondence of Palmer's wife, Sarah Ann Palmer (1815-1891), and of Palmer's...
Dates: 1783-2001; Majority of material found within 1848-1880

Pendleton Round-Up home movie

 Collection
Identifier: MI 11955
Abstract

Collection consists of a black-and white, silent home movie of the Pendleton Round-Up that was taken in September 1927. Footage includes rodeo events, bulls, a parade of horses, and Native participants. The Round-Up, held in Pendleton, Oregon, since 1910, features events including barrel racing, calf roping, and steer wrestling, as well as a parade and a night show.

Dates: 1927

W. W. Raymond papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 555
Abstract Papers of William Wakeman Raymond (1815-1894) of Oregon, primarily relating to his role as an Indian agent. The papers include correspondence about the treatment of Native peoples and the possibility of Native people claiming land; claims that Clatsop Chief Tostou made against the United States for destroyed or confiscated property; and handwritten copies of three unratified 1851 treaties with Natives peoples. Raymond came to Oregon in 1840, and worked as a missionary, farmer, and Indian...
Dates: 1847-1888

Robert Shortess papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1189
Abstract

Papers of Robert Shortess (1797-1878), an early emigrant to Oregon. Papers consist of correspondence, reports, and certificates relating to Shortess's work as an Indian sub-agent, his guardianship of Grace Tibbets and John Tibbets, and his work as a school district clerk; financial and property records; family correspondence; and a photostatic reproduction of the marriage certificate of Shortess's daughter, Susan Shortess (later Susan Walkley).

Dates: 1843-1877