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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