OMA Related Resources
Related Resources of Archival Digital Collections About Ethnic Minorities in the Pacific Northwest
Columbia Basin Ethnic History Archive
http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/crbeha/projteam/
The CRBEHA brings together selected highlights of the ethnic collections from leading repositories in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. In addition to the digital archive, CRBEHA provides tutorials on how to research and interpret library and museum resources, and encourages public dialogue about ethnic history sources and issues in its online discussion forum.
Washington State University
Black Oral History Interviews
http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xblackoralhistory.html
The Black Oral History Collection consists of interviews conducted by Quintard Taylor and his associates, Charles Ramsay and John Dawkins. They interviewed African American pioneers and their descendents throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, from 1972-1974.
University of Washington
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection
http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/index.html
This site provides an extensive digital collection of original photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures, complemented by essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics. These cultures have occupied, and in some cases still live in parts of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. Maps are available that show traditional territories or reservation boundaries. The collection is also available through the Library of Congress as part of the American Memories Series Project.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/wauhtml/aipnhome.html
Tamastlikt Cultural Institution
http://www.tamastslikt.com/index.asp
Tamástslikt Cultural Institute is the interpretive center for the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla Tribes. The facility helps document and preserve traditions and practices that distinguish the Confederated Tribes from any other peoples.
Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center
http://www.oregonnikkei.org/index.htm
The Oregon Nikkei legacy Center located in Portland, Oregon preserves and exhibits historical documents that highlight Issei immigration and early life in Oregon, Nihonmachi (Japantown), and life after Executive Order 9066 including the Portland Assembly Center and contemporary Nikkei life.
End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center
Black Pioneers of the Pacific Northwest
http://www.endoftheoregontrail.org/histhome.html#BlackPioneers
The End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center has on their Oregon History Library webpage a section dedicated to Black Pioneers of the Pacific Northwest. The section includes pages on a timeline of black history in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, slavery in Oregon Country and an explanation of the exclusion laws, and biographical sketches of black pioneers in the Northwest.
Oregon Historical Society
Focus on Oregon History
http://www.ohs.org/education/focus_on_oregon_history/
The Focus on Oregon History Site from the Oregon Historical Society are designed to provide teachers, students, and the general public a sense of the diverse people and events that comprise the history of Oregon. Each Focus on Oregon History topic is accompanied by a collection of primary sources from the Oregon Historical Society's Research Library. Topics includes: African American History in Oregon, Asian Pacific History in Oregon, and Reservation Life.
Oregon Historical Society
Indian Photographs
http://www.ohs.org/collections/library/Photo-Gallery-Indians.cfm
This site is a sampling of the Oregon Historical Society Photograph Collection. The images that are included on this page are portrait of Native Americans including, Chief Joseph. As well as, images an image of an Indian camp at The Dalles, ca. 1990.
Oregon Historical Society
Ethnic Diversity Photographs
http://www.ohs.org/collections/library/Photo-Gallery-Ethnic-Diversity.cfm
This site is a sampling of the Oregon Historical Society Photograph Collection. Images on this webpage consist of African Americans and Japanese Americans. One image of note, is a Japanese float from the 1908 Rose Festival.
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives
(from the Online Archive of California)
http://ark.cdlib.org/?xslt=jarda-image-sr&relation=jarda&type=image&search=oregon
JARDA is a digital "thematic collection" within the CDL's OAC documenting the experience of Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps. Curators, archivists, and librarians from ten participating OAC contributing institutions selected a broad range of primary sources to be digitized, including photographs, documents, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, letters, and oral histories. Over 10,000 digital images have been created complemented by 20,000 pages of electronic transcriptions of documents and oral histories. These materials are described and inventoried in 28 different online guides or "finding aids". The link provided above leads to images of Japanese Americans from Oregon.
Kam Wah Chung
http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_8.php
http://www.grantcounty.cc/events/kamwahchung.htm
The Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum, located in John Day, is a truly unique structure that represents the oldest known vestiges of Chinese civilization in the United States. Built in 1867, the Kam Wah Chung & Co. building shares the story of Chinese immigrants who contributed so significantly to the social and economic development of this country during its westward expansion. The Kam Wah Chung & Co. building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and received a National Historic Landmark designation in 2005.
Southern Oregon University
First Nations Tribal Collection
http://soda.sou.edu/tribal.html
The First Nations Tribal Collection of the Southern Oregon Digital Archives consists of documents, books, and articles relating to the indigenous peoples of this bioregion. We have begun to collect and mount materials about many tribes in southwestern Oregon and northern California. Some of these nations include the Coos, Hupa, Karuk, Klamath, Modoc, Takelma, Shasta, Siuslaw, Cow Creek Band of Umpqua, Yahooskin, and Yurok nations. Most of the materials in this database are in the public domain.
Oregon State University Archives and the Oregon State Archives
Fighters on the Farm Front
http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/osu/osuhomepage.html
This exhibit "Fighters on the Farm Front: Oregon's Emergency Farm Labor Service, 1943-1947" commemorates the state's Emergency Farm Labor Service, a program sponsored by the Oregon State College Extension Service to ensure an adequate farm labor supply during World War II and the years immediately after. The electronic version that you are about to view was developed by the Oregon State University Archives and the Oregon State Archives. The electronic version contains 67 images -- mostly photographs, but also posters and other printed documents. The exhibit images are from OSU Archives collections.
University of Oregon
Lee Moorhouse Photograph collection digital collection
http://duckhenge.uoregon.edu/galleries/moorhouse/
Collection comprises over 7,000 (at present only 112 images have been digitized) glass plate negatives created primarily in eastern Oregon between 1897 and 1920. The collection also includes a register kept by Moorhouse. The images document urban, rural, and Native American life in the Columbia Basin and Umatilla County, Oregon. About one third of the images concern Native American peoples, including the Cayuse, Walla Walla, Umatilla, Nez Perce, and Warm Springs tribes. This portion of the collection includes images of persons, ceremonies, events and landscapes in and around the Umatilla Indian Reservation, near Pendleton, Oregon. The photographs present a selective image of Native American life, but one that reflects the social and cultural changes that native peoples were going through at the time. The rest of the collection documents ranch life, wheat farming, logging, irrigation projects, salmon fishing, small town and community life, and the Pendleton Round-Up, of which there are over 600 images from 1910-1919.
University of Oregon
Picturing the Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla Tribes
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/catdept/digcol/mh/index.html
Picturing the Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla Tribes is a collaborative project among the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute (TCI) of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the University of Oregon (UO) Libraries, and Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE). The website presents about two hundred and fifty of Major Lee Moorhouse's pictures of the Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla tribes for tribal and non-tribal members.
Salem Public Library
Salem Online History -- Salem's Ethnic Histories
http://www.salemhistory.net/people/ethnic.htm
The Salem Public Library a website dedicated to histories of the Salem's ethnic minorities. The minority groups identified on this page are: African Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, The Kalapuya: Salem's First Native Americans, and Salem's Latino Community. After each history there is a bibliography of secondary sources pertaining to each group.
Lewis & Clark College
Erskine Wood Family Collection
http://digitalcollections.lclark.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Ferskinewood
This digital collection contains several images from 1893 of the Nez Perce at Chief Joseph's Camp at the Colville Reservation.
Lane Community College
Oral History - The Sámano Family
http://www.lanecc.edu/archives/OH_Samano.html
The Oral History page from Lane Community College features a collection
of oral histories of the Sámano family. The family has had
long and close ties with the community college. The website was
developed in conjunction with the fortieth anniversary of Lane community
College.
Pacific University
Graduating Class of 1876, the First Japanese Students at Pacific University
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/meijistudents/
This website produced by Pacific University deals with the first Japanese student at Pacific University. The site includes short biographies of each student.
ALASKA
Alaska's Digital Archives, University of Alaska at Fairbanks (n.d.)
Retrieved fromhttp://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm4/pathway.php
Alaska's Digital Archives provides photographs and information
about Alaska Natives' history and culture. This page allows the
viewer to link to images by type of activity (making a living, art,
education, etc.), by geographical area, or by time periods. The
links bring the viewer to thumbnail images along with the title,
subject, and description of each photograph.
Alaska State Library (2007.) Retrieved from http://library.state.ak.us/hist/exhibits.html
This is a photographic exhibit on schools in rural Alaska which
documents activities and rural school life for Alaska Natives during
1931-1950. Information on the site indicates that they are in the
process of digitizing their collections, which will be included
in Alaska's Digital Archives.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
British Columbia Digital Library (2007). Retrieved from http://bcdlib.tc.ca/general-
collections-us.html
This is not a link to a digitized photograph repository, but instead
is a page of links to collections of texts and other materials,
some of which are related to Native Americans. Canada is consolidating
and centralizing their libraries and archives resources in order
to make it easier to for the public to search for and access Canada's
documentary heritage. See Library and Archives Canada at http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-
ch/ac-os/collections_e.cfm for more information.
IDAHO
University of Idaho Special Collections (2007). Digital Memories.
Retrieved fromhttp://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/dm/dm2007/jennie.htm
This site features offers brief descriptions of historical artifacts
from their collections. As they begin digitizing their collection,
more photographs of Native Americans may become available. This
site has potential and should be watched.
MONTANA
University of Montana (2006). Indian Peoples of the Northern Great
Plains. Retrieved from http://www.lib.montana.edu/epubs/nadb/
This searchable database is a cooperative effort among several
colleges ( Montana State University campuses at Bozeman, Billings,
and Havre as well as Little Big Horn College) and a museum (Museum
of the Rockies in Bozeman). It is primarily photographs, but also
includes stereographs, ledger drawings, and other sketches.
OREGON
Lewis and Clark College (2005). Retrieved from http://www.lclark.edu/~archives/
This small digitized collection of fewer than 500 photographs contains
only a dozen or so of Native Americans. It hasn't been updated for
two years, but the potential is there for future
growth and expansion.
Oregon State Archives (n.d.) Web exhibits and projects. Retrieved
fromhttp://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/banners/exhibits.htm
The 50 th Anniversary Exhibits of the Oregon State Archives includes
one on the Whitman Massacre. It includes text, drawings, photographs
of transcripts, and links for further reference. This institution
has the potential for providing additional digitized
records on the Native American population of Oregon.
Oregon State Library (2007). Oregon State Library Photo Website.
Retrieved fromhttp://159.121.122.41/
While only a few of more than 40,000 photographs have been placed
on the website, all have been scanned and most have been researched
and cataloged. There are a minimum of several hundred photographs
of Native Americans among them although none are yet on the site.
This website has a rich potential .
Museum at Warm Springs (2007). Awards and reviews. Retrieved fromhttp://www.warmsprings.biz/museum/aboutus/awards.shtml
This website announced that it has been awarded a National Park
Service Grant to photograph pictographs on reservation land and
that it had also been awarded a grant to photograph and create an
archive as well as fund a digital repository at the museum. This
site should be added once the archive is placed online.
WASHINGTON
Seattle Museum of History and Industry (2002). Retrieved from
http://www.seattlehistory.org/oral_history_database/oral_history_search.cfm
While this website currently has fewer than 100 digitized photographs
of Native Americans, it does have transcriptions of oral histories
from tribal members, which is unusual.
Suquamish Tribe/Historical Archives (1998). Retrieved fromhttp://www.suquamish.nsn.us/
This site contains only three photographs under “historical archives”
and the page has not been updated for almost ten years, but the
hope is that as the tribe's finances improve because of casino earnings
they will utilize a part of it to share their cultural heritage.
This site has potential.
Washington State University (n.d.) Frank Fuller Avery Collection.
Retrieved fromhttp://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/Holland/masc/xavery.html
This collection of more than 800 photographs taken from 1901 to
1916 when Avery was assigned to the Coville Indian Agency. There
are a number of photographs of Native American school children.
Information compiled by Erika Castano and Monique Lloyd
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