A few years ago, I received a donation from the Charles Holmes estate in Salem, from the wife of Charles Holmes. The collection, are records from the career of Charles Holmes, a former teacher and staff member at Chemawa Indian … Continue reading The Charles Holmes Collection of Chemawa Indian School Documents
http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol6/iss1/ Here is the link to articles to the new issue of Journal Of Western Archives. This is an online publicly accessible journal where I serve on the Editorial board. The issue published yesterday is a special issue, the Native … Continue reading New Tribal Archival Articles in Journal Publication Online
Working for the past fifteen years on important questions of western Oregon history. I have found that much of what we understand as the history of tribes is in fact mythologies of previous generations of historians and other social scientists. … Continue reading The Process of History Scholarship, 2014
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 series of annual censuses of the tribes. This annual census occurred from 1885-1940. Some ten … Continue reading Research online of the Genealogy of the Grand Ronde Tribe