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Native Americans

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:

Andrew Jackson Splawn letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1554
Abstract

Collection includes manuscript and typescript correspondence used by Andrew Jackson Splawn in his book "Ka-Mi-Akin: Last Hero of the Yakimas," 1858-1908.

Dates: 1858-1908

Oral history interview with Flora Cushinway Thompson

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9586
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1971

Oral history interview with Flora Cushinway Thompson

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9504
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1966 April

A true copy of the record of the official proceedings at the council in the Walla Walla Valley

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1137
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1855

Photograph album depicting members of the Umatilla people

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 335
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1910

Fanny Van Duyn photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 949
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1900-1901