Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from March 2009

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from March 2009

"Standing out here in the surf": the termination and restoration of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians of Western Oregon in historical perspective.
March 22, 2009... IN APRIL 1985, the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians held a joyous celebration in the Coos Bay National Guard Armory, honoring the people who had worked to secure their future. The previous October, President Ronald...

The politics of Oregon history: an introduction to OHQ's statehood sesquicentennial series.(Oregon Historical Quarterly)
March 22, 2009... IN 1959, THE Oregon Historical Quarterly remained, as it had been for decades, an active celebrant of the state's pioneer past. Surprisingly, though, the journal did not take much formal notice of the centennial of Oregon statehood. When it...

Town and country in Oregon: a conflicted legacy.
March 22, 2009... THE LANDSCAPES of the American and Canadian wests offer up great distances between towns, a lower intensity and volume of human activity, and in many places, abandoned farmsteads and townsites. Ian Frazier's 1989 best-seller Great Plains...

From urban frontier to metropolitan region: Oregon's cities from 1870 to 2008.
March 22, 2009... PORTLAND HAS BEEN the largest city in Oregon for the entire span of statehood. Throughout this same period, residents in other cities and in rural communities have resented Portland's economic power, battled its political influence, and...

"For working women in Oregon": Caroline Gleason/Sister Miriam Theresa and Oregon's minimum wage law.(Cover story)
March 22, 2009... IN THE FALL OF 1912, Caroline Gleason reported to her new job at the Stettler Box Factory on Portland's Glisan and Tenth streets. Gleason's job, and that of her female coworkers, involved gluing labels onto shoeboxes, using glue dipped from a...

The West the Railroads Made.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... THE WEST THE RAILROADS MADE by Carlos Schwantes and James P. Ronda University of Washington Press in association with Washington State Historical Society and John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, Seattle and London, 2008....

Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports From the Field.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... DARING TO LOOK: DOROTHEA LANGE'S PHOTOGRAPHS AND REPORTS FROM THE FIELD by Anne Whiston Spirn University of Chicago Press, Illinois, 2008. Photographs, notes, index. 359 pages. $40.00 cloth. Imaginative and beautifully produced, Anne...

With Grit and by Grace: Breaking Trails in Politics and Law, a Memoir.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... WITH GRIT AND BY GRACE: BREAKING TRAILS IN POLITICS AND LAW, A MEMOIR by Betty Roberts with Gail Wells Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2008. Photographs, index. 288 pages. $24.95 paper. Betty Roberts, a former teacher...

Chaining Oregon: Surveying the Public Lands of the Pacific Northwest, 1851-1855.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... CHAINING OREGON: SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, 1851-1855 by Kay Atwood The McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, Granville, Ohio, 2008. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 279 pages....

Voices Raised in Protest: Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, 1942-49.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... VOICES RAISED IN PROTEST: DEFENDING NORTH AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY, 1942-49 by Stephanie Bangarth University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver and Toronto, 2008. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index....

Cultural Contact and Linguistic Relativity Among the Indians of Northwestern California.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... CULTURAL CONTACT AND LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY AMONG THE INDIANS OF NORTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA by Sean O'Neill University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2008. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. 356 pages. $50.00 cloth. Sean O'Neill's book...

Haunted by Waters: A Journey Through Race and Place in the American West.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... HAUNTED BY WATERS: A JOURNEY THROUGH RACE AND PLACE IN THE AMERICAN WEST by Robert T. Hayashi University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 2007. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 214 pages. $34.95 cloth. This is one of the...

Awful Splendor: A Fire History of Canada.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... AWFUL SPLENDOR: A FIRE HISTORY OF CANADA by Stephen J. Pyne University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver and Toronto, 2008. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, index. 548 pages. $85.00 cloth. $34.95 paper. Stephen Pyne, the...

William Clark: Indian Diplomat.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... WILLIAM CLARK: INDIAN DIPLOMAT by Jay H. Buckley University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2008. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 320 pages. $29.95 cloth. Jay Buckley trods well-worn paths in this new...

B Street: The Notorious Playground of Coulee Dam.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... B STREET: THE NOTORIOUS PLAYGROUND OF COULEE DAM by Lawney L. Reyes University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2008. Illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography. 184 pages. $18.95 paper. B Street tells two stories related to the...

America's Nuclear Wastelands: Politics, Accountability, and Cleanup.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... AMERICA'S NUCLEAR WASTELANDS: POLITICS, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND CLEANUP by Max S. Power Washington State University Press, Pullman, 2008. Notes, bibliography, illustrations, index. 216 pages. $19.95 paper. At the Hanford site in...

The Great Land: How Western America Nearly Became a Russian Possession.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... THE GREAT LAND: HOW WESTERN AMERICA NEARLY BECAME A RUSSIAN POSSESSION by Jeremy Atiyah Parker Press, Oxford and Portland, 2008. Bibliography, index. 250 pages. $29.95 cloth. Jeremy Atiyah was an English travel writer celebrated...

Where Fortune Calls: Dreamers and Schemers in the Land of the Lakes.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... WHERE FORTUNE CALLS: DREAMERS AND SCHEMERS IN THE LAND OF THE LAKES by the Shaw Historical Library Shaw Historical Library, Klamath Falls, Oregon, 2007. Photographs. 149 pages. $17.50 paper. The theme of this publication, the 2007...

The Spokane Indians: Children of the Sun.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The Spokane Indians: Children of the Sun by Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown forewords by Robert L. Bennett and George Hill introduction by Lynn Pankonin University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2006. Photographs, bibliography,...

Learning to Write "Indian": The Boarding-School Experience and American Indian Literature.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Learning to Write "Indian": The Boarding-School Experience and American Indian Literature by Amelia V. Katanski University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2007. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. 288 pages. $24.95 cloth, $16.95...

Portland.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Portland by Walter Fortner Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, 2007. Photographs. 128 pages. $19.99 paper. Two hundred postcards fill the pages of the new photographic history book Portland. Local author Walter Fortner...

Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820-1880.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820-1880 by Maria Raquel Casas University of Nevada Press, Reno, 2007. Photographs, notes, bibliography. 274 pages. $34.95 cloth. ...

Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest by William Neill photographs by Doug Hepburn and William Neill Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, Montana, 2007. Photographs, bibliography, index. 208 pages. $18.00 paper. This...

Images of America: Molalla.(BOOK NOTES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Images of America: Molalla by Judith Sanders Chapman and Lois E. Helvey Ray Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, 2008. Photographs. 128 pages. $19.99 paper. Famous for its annual Fourth of July Buckaroo rodeo and parade...

Letters.(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2009... To the Editor: In her review of my book, The Fishermen's Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska (Winter 2008), Carmel Finley uses my words nearly verbatim and without attribution. She notes, for example, that the salmon fishery in...

Corrections.(Correction notice)
March 22, 2009... The caption on page 602 of the Winter 2008 (109:4) issue of OHQ erroneously states that A.B. Hammond was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey; Hammond was born in St. Leonard's, New Brunswick, Canada. In the same issue, the acknowledgement on page...

Tribal studies conference.(NOTICES)
March 22, 2009... Applications are being accepted for the 2009 National Streams of Language, Memory, and Lifeways Conference for Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums to be held in Portland, Oregon, from October 19 to 22, 2009. Please visit the...

History Pub.(NOTICES)
March 22, 2009... Join the Oregon Historical Society and the Holy Names Heritage Center at McMenamin's Kennedy School on the last Monday evening of every month for History Pub. Speakers on a wide range of topics will be featured. History Pub is free, and...

Rendezvous 2009.(NOTICES)
March 22, 2009... A Northwest History and Heritage Extravaganza, including the 2009 Oregon Heritage Conference, the Pacific Northwest History Conference, and the annual meetings of the Northwest Archivists and the Northwest Oral History Association, will take...

OregonScape.(Camp Harney)(Brief article)
March 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CAMP HARNEY WAS ESTABLISHED by the United States Army on August 16, 1867, near the mouth of Rattlesnake Creek, a few miles north of present-day Harney, Oregon. The camp was one of several the Army built in eastern...