Tag: Washington Territory
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , April 16th, 2020
Treaty between the Waukikum tribe and the United States, negotiated by Anson Dart, Superintendent of Indian Affairs. The treaty negotiations at Tansey Point on the Columbia River were…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , February 17th, 2020
Special Indian Agent J. Ross Browne famously came to the Northwest reservations in 1857 and wrote reports of the conditions of the tribes on the reservations. The following…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , January 2nd, 2020
Modeste Demers was assigned with the Oregon Territory, in 1837, at the same time as Francois Norbert Blanchet and they traveled together overland to their assignment in canoes…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , January 7th, 2019
Chilluckittequw: In what was to become Skamania County, the first residents called themselves Chilluckittequw (Ruby and Brown) and they lived along the rivers that drained into the Columbia…
David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , July 23rd, 2018
General Joe Lane was an early politician and war hero for Oregon. He served as the Indian Superintendent for Oregon as well as Governor of the territory in…
David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , May 14th, 2018
James G. Swan is a legendary scholar of Native people of the Northwest coast. He is an early federal employee in the Oregon territory and lives in the…