Native Americans

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.

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

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.

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).

Oral history interview with Wilbur Slockish, Jr., conducted by Michael O’Rourke on February 11, 2000, as part of the Columbia River Dissenters Oral History Series. Slockish discusses his prosecution and incarceration after a federal-state sting operation that became known as "Salmonscam," talks about proposals to store nuclear waste on tribal lands, and shares his thoughts about the causes for the decline in fish and wildlife populations in the Columbia River Basin over the 20th century.

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 Ted Strong, conducted by Clark Hansen in two sessions, on January 17 and January 18, 2000, as part of the Columbia River Dissenters Oral History Series. Strong discusses his work as comptroller for the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, and as executive director of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.

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.