Guides and Collections
Collections Pertaining to Native American People and Culture in
Oregon
Photographs, motion picture films, and videotapes
Walter Baker Photograph Collection (P 18)
P18: 259 & 270 - Chemawa Indian School, near Salem, ca. 1905
Extension Bulletin Illustrations Photograph Collection
(P 20)
P20: 757 -- Warm Springs Indians show their "War Dance", Crook County
(??), ca. 1920
P20:2521 -- Siletz Indians, ca. 1920 (identified by Siletz elder
as Oscar Wood and wife, Marthe)
OSU Historical File (P 25)
P25:613-618 Siletz or Grand Ronde Indians at a celebration?, ca.
1920
News and Communication Services Photograph Collection (P
57)
P57:645 - Native Americans (Warm Springs?) on horseback in the Tygh
Valley, 1901. Includes Washington Peter, head man.
P57: 5445-5455 -- Photographs of the Native American Club's first
pow-wow, October 1977 (used in December 1977 Oregon Stater)
E. R. Jackman Photograph Collection (P 89)
P89: 216-217 & 219 - Indian hieroglyphics
P89: 220-233 - artifacts from the collection of Reub Long
University Publications Photographs (P 94)
Accession 2001:105 - photographs of undated pow-wow
Accession 2004:036, box 2
Native Americans, November 1987
-- Native American student activities;
includes some Native American
Longhouse images; pow-wow
Wilma Mankiller speaking on
campus and pow-wow, fall 1988
John Horner Photograph Collection (P 100)
P100:24-33, 35-38 & 42 - Siletz Indians, early 20th century
P100:45 - Umatilla family
P100:46-47 & 61 - Modoc Indians
P100:102 - Chief Joseph
P100: 89, 101, 103-104 - unidentified Native Americans
E. E. Wilson Photograph Collection (P 101)
P101:453-454; 550-562 -- Siletz Indians, 4th of July celebration,
1910
Oliver Matthews Photograph Collection
P118: 802 - Hieroglyphics near Elk Lake, Sept. 21, 1928
P118: 1103 - Indians fishing form Shears Bridge, May 19, 1934
P118: 1167 - Diggings near Indian Cave close to Long's Hollow, Sept.
26, 1935
P118: 2079 - Warm Springs, as it appeared from the road above, Sept.
16, 1937
Extension and Experiment Station Communications Photograph
Collection (P 120)
P120:1165-1172 - Warm Springs Indian Boys' Wildlife Management Short
Course, July 1966
P120: 4054 - 4069 & 4074 - Images of the Warm Springs Reservation,
June 1958. Includes the old school house at Shimanisho, which was
made into a community center; 4-H club members and activities (beadwork,
swimming); baseball diamond construction; sewing; canning.
Four-H Photograph Collection (P 146)
P146:2618-2621 - Indian dancers (hoop dancers from Warm Springs
or Chemawa?)
Ralph Van Cleave Photograph Collection (P 156)
P156: 53 - Block house originally located at Fort Yamhill at the
Grand Ronde reservation, ca. 1900
Gifford Photograph Collection (P 218)
This collection includes early 20th century images of Native Americans
from the Columbia Plateau region and images of Native American participants
in the Pendleton Round-Up in the 1940s.
KOAC-TV Films (P
207 F/V)
This collection includes color films made circa 1973 of the Klamath
and Warm Springs reservations.
University Records
Associated
Students of OSU (ASOSU), 1917-2006 (RG 11)
President's Office (RG 13)
Subgroup 16 (Byrne), series 7 - Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
committee materials, 1987-1995 (3 folders)
Subgroup 17 (Risser), series 3 - correspondence with the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs, 1997
Student Affairs (RG 102)
Accession 95:032 - Includes a file on the Native American Longhouse
from 1973.
Accession 2000:047 - Includes information on the Native American
Longhouse
Extension Service Records (RG 111)
Subgroup 1 (Reports) - includes annual reports of the Extension
Service program on the Warm Springs reservation from 1955 to 1980.
Subgroup 2 (Director's Office), series 1 includes files pertaining
to programs, projects and agreements with tribes and the Bureau
of Indian Affairs, 1931-1977
Subgroup 2 (Director's Office), series 2 includes a file on the
Chicano-Indian Study Center of Oregon (CISCO), 1971-1972
University Advancement (RG 210)
Accession 2006:010 includes files pertaining to the Native American
Longhouse (primarily the 1999 Sacred Landscapes conference); the
Museum at Warm Springs (OSU's vice president for University Advancement
was a board member), 2000-2002; the OSU Native American Roundtable
(discussion group), 2003; and Native American relations generally,
2000-2003.
Manuscript Collections
Mater Engineering, Inc., Records - consists of
records generated and collected by Mater Engineering, Inc., of Corvallis,
which pertain to the company's consultation work with various Native
American tribes in the use of their forest lands. Oregon tribes
representedin the collection include the Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation,
and The Klamath Tribes. The records include correspondence, photographs,
proposals and contracts, studies, maps, newspaper clippings and
publications, and date from 1920 to 1995.
Memorabilia Collection files
American Indian Science and Engineering Society -
contains clippings, brochures and informational posters on the OSU
chapter of this student organization.
Center for the Study of the First Americans -
contains information on this research center that was located at
OSU from 1992 to 2002. The center function was to seek evidence
of the Western Hemisphere's first inhabitants.
Fort Hoskins and Fort Yamhill - current newspaper
accounts of these forts that were ostensibly established to protect
the Siletz and Grand Ronde reservations.
Modoc War - Transcribed newspaper articles from
the 1870s to the turn of the 20th century pertaining to this 1872
conflict.
Native American Longhouse - newspaper clippings
and a brochure about this cultural center.
Native American Student Association - newspaper
clippings and flyers about the activities (primarily pow-wows) of
this student organization.
Native Americans - newspaper clippings brochures,
and other information pertaining to Native Americans at OSU and
in Oregon.
Warm Springs Reservation - newspaper clippings,
poster, and 1985 annual report of the Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon.
Oral Histories
Oregon Pioneers (OH1)
23. Rilatos, Robert
Siletz Reservation
Indians
Native American Language Collection (OH 12)
Oral interviews with members
of the Coquille and Siletz tribes made by Portland
State University anthropologist
Joe E. Pierce in 1962-63 (57 tapes).
Other Sources
Federal Records
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Report books of the Office of
Indian Affairs, 1838-1885. E93 .U55 Valley Microfilm
Indian hostilities in Oregon
and Washington [microform] :
message from the President of
the United States, communicating information
relative to Indian hostilities
in the territories of Oregon and Washington ...
1856 F591 .W4 reel 573, no. 5870.
Valley Microfilm
Records of the Oregon Superintendency
of Indian Affairs, 1848-1873.
E78.O6 U58 Valley Microfilm
Letters received by the Office
of Indian Affairs, 1824-81 [microform] :
Oregon superintendency, 1842-1880.
E93 .U54 [Lib. has rolls 607- 630]
Valley Microfilm
Indian census rolls, 1885-1940.
E98.C3 U5 (various reels) & internet resource
Corporate charter of the Confederated
Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community, Oregon.
Ratified August 22, 1936. E78.O6
C631 1936 Valley SpCol Vault
Constitution and by-laws of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon, 1938. E78.O6 C62 Valley SpCol Vault
Tribal Documents and Publications
A history of the McQuinn Strip, by Gordon McNab, 1972. E78.O6
M291 1972 Valley SpCol Vault
Confederated Tribes og the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
annual reports, 1976-1984. E78.O6 C19 Valley
The People of Warm Springs : profile : the Confederated Tribes
of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, 1984. E78.O6
P46 1984 Valley and Valley SpCol Vault
OSU Publications and Theses
Warm Springs Research Project, 1960. Oregon State College. Two
year study of the human and social conditions of the Warm Springs
Reservation. 4 volumes. E78.O6 O7 Valley
A theory of economic development at Warm Springs Indian Reservation
, Oregon, 1962. Ph.D. Thesis by James A. Rock. LD4330
1962D 49 Valley
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