Native Americans
Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:
Notes relative to the original construction and the reconstruction of Chief Sonihat's "Whale House" New Kasaan, P.W.I.
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.
Pacific Northwest river scene photographs
Three photographs of unrelated river scenes in the Pacific Northwest, including depictions of seining and Native American fishing practices.
Pendleton Round-Up home movie
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.
Andrew Jackson Splawn letters
Collection includes manuscript and typescript correspondence used by Andrew Jackson Splawn in his book "Ka-Mi-Akin: Last Hero of the Yakimas," 1858-1908.
Oral history interview with Flora Cushinway Thompson
Oral history with Flora Cushinway Thompson conducted around 1971. Thompson discusses the Wyam people's way of life at Celilo Falls, and the Wyams' resistance to the construction of The Dalles Dam.
Oral history interview with Flora Cushinway Thompson
Oral history interview with Flora Cushinway Thompson conducted by Joan Arrivee Wagenblast in April 1966. Thompson, whose husband was Wyam Chief Tommy Thompson, discusses the forced relocation of the Wyam people after the construction of The Dalles Dam flooded Celilo Falls.
A true copy of the record of the official proceedings at the council in the Walla Walla Valley
Bound photostat manuscript record of the official proceedings at the Council in the Walla Walla Valley, 1855, held jointly by Isaac I. Stevens of Washington and Joel Palmer of Oregon, where treaties were made with the Nez Percé, the Walla Walla and the Umatilla.
Photograph album depicting members of the Umatilla people
Small leather-bound album containing black and white portraits, taken by an unknown photographer, of unidentified members of the Umatilla people, particularly women and children.
Fanny Van Duyn photographic collection
Small collection of black and white copy prints of photographs of and taken by Fanny B. Wright Van Duyn of Tygh Valley, Oregon. The bulk of the photographs are portraits of Native people on the Warm Springs Reservation.