On August 7th 1871, Indian commissioner Alfred B. Meacham met with representatives of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The mission was to discuss the possibility
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Research in Washington, D.C., August 2014
August in Washington, D.C. is hot, humid, and is always seen as a great opportunity to find incredible resources that are lost in the archives.
200 years of Conflict
In the Northwest today there is an incredible historical irony playing itself out through inter-tribal politics. Perhaps the situation is such that it rates as
Research online of the Genealogy of the Grand Ronde Tribe
Recently, I have a found that online research on tribal genealogy is better than before. The Internet Archive has published perhaps all of the M595
The Molalla Treaty: The Last Western Oregon Treaty
The Molalla Treaty of December 1855 is the last western Oregon treaty ever negotiated, that was eventually ratified. It was late because Joel Palmer heard