Oregon Historical Quarterly articles from September 2005

Oregon Historical Quarterly archives from September 2005

The Stevens treaties of 1854-1855.
September 22, 2005... An Introduction EARLY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, President Thomas Jefferson tapped his protege Meriwether Lewis to lead the epic expedition that delineated the geography of the Pacific Northwest. Simultaneously, he set in motion the...

The Isaac I. Stevens and Joel Palmer treaties, 1855-2005.
September 22, 2005... FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED OREGON TRIBES Burns Paiute Tribe Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Confederated Tribes of the Warm...

Joel Palmer and Isaac Ingalls Stevens.
September 22, 2005... JOEL PALMER was born on October 4, 1810, to Quaker parents in Ontario, Canada, and grew up in New York's Catskill Mountains. Indentured to a nearby family for four years, he received only three months of formal schooling before moving to...

Indian treaty history: a subject for agile minds.
September 22, 2005... STUDYING THE HISTORY OF INDIAN TREATIES In the Pacific Northwest can be a vigorous workout for any brain. Treaty history is replete with ironic twists and turns, showing us that time often plays tricks on the people who make history. It reminds...

Medicine creek to Fox Island: cadastral scams and contested domains.
September 22, 2005... RISING BLACK AGAINST THE HORIZON and fleetingly visible from the interstate highway that runs along the southern edge of Puget Sound north and east of Olympia, Washington, an old Douglas fir snag is nearly obscured by the riparian trees and...

The legacy of the Walla Walla Council, 1855.
September 22, 2005... IN MAY 1855, several thousand Indians from the Great Columbia Plateau of present-day Oregon, Washington, and Idaho met in the Walla Walla Valley to discuss agreements between sovereign tribal bodies and the United States. In less than a month,...

Who's in charge of fishing?(Stevens-Palmer Treaties and fishing by native Americans)
September 22, 2005... FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE 1854, Indian peoples whose ancestral lands lie within what Americans call the Pacific Northwest depended on fishing, gathering, trading, and hunting for their livelihood. Groups migrated between summer camps on...

After the treaties: administering Pacific Northwest Indian reservations.
September 22, 2005... BY 1881, virtually every Native American in Oregon and Washington was formally assigned to a particular reservation, although many declined to reside on such places. Most reservation tracts had been established under treaties concluded in the...

Picturing food and power at the treaty councils.
September 22, 2005... MANY NATIVE AMERICAN MEN In similar dress sit on either side of a long cloth in Gustav Sohon's Chiefs at Dinner, Walla Walla Council, 1855. They appear to be holding pieces of food in their hands. Identical plates and bowls have been carefully...

Indian perspectives on food and culture.
September 22, 2005... I WAS ASKED TO PRESENT the Indian perspective on food and culture. I agreed to the assignment with the intent of clearing the air, as the saying goes. When I sat and thought about this subject it came to me that yes! I should be truthful. I...

Indian views of the Stevens-Palmer Treaties today.(Oregon Voices)
September 22, 2005... THE STARTING POINT for discussion of many current issues in the Columbia River Basin is the treaty relationship between Indian tribes and the U.S. government, often established before the states were formed. The foundational treaties between...

American Indian treaty glossary.(Glossary)
September 22, 2005... Treaty--is a contract or compact between nations. It is an agreement that is binding upon the nations that sign the treaty. The United States Constitution says treaties are "the supreme Law of the Land." The property rights that a specific...

Eva Emery Dye: Romance with the West.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Eva Emery Dye: Romance with the West By Sheri Bartlett Browne Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2004. Notes, bibliography, index. 192 pages. $24.95 Paper. HISTORIAN Sheri Bartlett Browne examines the life and impact of...

Western Women's Lives: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Western Women's Lives: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century Edited by Sandra K. Schackel University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2003. Photographs, bibliography. 443 Pages, $22.95 cloth. THIS BOOK DRAWS...

Trappings of the Great Basin Buckaroo.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Trappings of the Great Basin Buckaroo By C.J. Hadley University of Nevada Press, Reno, 2003. Photographs. 216 pages. $29-95 paper. C.J. HADLEY's Trappings of the Great Basin. Buckaroo is an engaging and important overview of...

Seeing Nature through Gender.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Seeing Nature through Gender Edited by Virginia J. Scharff University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2003. Photographs, maps, notes, index . 367 pages. $17.95 paper. AN ONGOING preoccupation within environmental history has been...

Wild Women of the Old West.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Wild Women of the Old West Edited by Glenda Riley and Richard W. Etulain Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, Colorado, 2003. Photographs, index. 255 pages. $17.95 Paper. WILD WOMEN OF THE OLD WEST is the fourth of the Notable...

The Oregon Trail: An American Saga.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Oregon Trail: An American Saga By David Dary Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2004. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 423 pages. $35.00 paper. DAVID DARY is the noted author of several books on the settlement,...

Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone Edited by Patricia O'Connell Killen and Mark Silk Romman and Littlefield, Charlotte, N.C., 2004. Tables, bibliography, index. 204 pages. $19.95 Paper. ...

The New Town Square: Museums and Communities in Transition.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The New Town Square: Museums and Communities in Transition By Robert R. Archibald AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, Calif., 2004. Photographs, notes, index. 232 pages. $24.95 paper. ROBERT ARCHIBALD'S The New Town Square: Museums...

Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship By Nathaniel Lewis University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2003. Notes, index. 290 pages. $49.95 cloth. NATHANIEL LEWIS is a young, ambitious scholar. He wants to...

Wildlife and Western Heroes: Alexander Phimister Proctor, Sculptor.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Wildlife and Western Heroes: Alexander Phimister Proctor, Sculptor By Peter Hassrick Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, in association with Third Millenium Publishing, London, 2003. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index....

The Journal of a Sea Captain's Wife, 1841-1845.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Journal of a Sea Captain's Wife, 1841-1845 By Lydia Rider Nye, edited by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. Arthur H. Clark Company, Spokane, Wash., 2004. Photographs, maps, bibliography, appendices, index. 254 pages. $32.50 cloth. ...

Russians in Alaska, 1732-1867.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Russians in Alaska, 1732-1867 By Lydia T. Black University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, 2004. Illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, index. 344 pages. $29.95 paper. THERE ARE FEW defenders of imperialism in academe...

Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church By Bonnie Sue Lewis University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 304 pages. $34.95 cloth. ...

Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse, by Julie Rak (UBC Press, Vancouver, B.C., 2004. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 192 pages. $29.95 paper) The first Doukhobor immigrants arrived in Halifax in 1899 as...

Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment, by Brian Masaru Hayashi (Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 2004. Notes, index. 339 pages. $35.00 cloth) Racism, wartime hysteria, and poor leadership are often cited as...

A Common Ground: Erb Memorial Union 1950 to 2000.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... A Common Ground: Erb Memorial Union 1950 to 2000, by Adell McMillan (Erb Memorial Union, Eugene, Ore., 2003. Photographs, notes. 718 pages. $31.99 Paper) McMillan chronicles the history of the Erb Memorial Union at the University of Oregon...

Chiefs and Generals: Nine Men Who Shaped the American West.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Chiefs and Generals: Nine Men Who Shaped the American West, edited by Richard W. Etulain and Glenda Riley (Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, Colo. 2004. 256 pages. Photographs, maps, bibliography, index. $17.95 paper) The latest book in Richard...

Marmes Rockshelter: A Final Report on 11,000 Years of Cultural Use.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Marmes Rockshelter: A Final Report on 11,000 Years of Cultural Use, edited by Brent A. Hicks (Washington State University Press, Pullman, Wash., 2004. Charts, tables, photographs, bibliography. 466 pages. $65.00 paper) Excavation at the...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2005... To the Editor: As a scholar who has spent the last eleven years collecting new data and critically analyzing published documentary evidence on the public life of Meriwether Lewis, I read with particular interest, David Nicandri's article,...

2006 Sterling Fellowships in Pacific Northwest History.(Notices)
September 22, 2005... The Oregon Historical Society is accepting applications for Donald J. Sterling, Jr., Research Fellowships. A$2,500 Senior Fellowship and a $2,000 Graduate Research Fellowship are available. Application deadline is September 30, 2005. For...

OHS Research Library Recent accessions.(Notices)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Mills Family collection, ca. 1850-1940 (bulk ca. 1920-1940).1.5 cu. ft. Additions to the collection of the family of John Ainsworth Mills, including photographs and biographical information for members of the Heitshu family of Portland;...