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War and Removal
The arrival of Euro-Americans in southwest Oregon shattered Native societies. After brief but brutal warfare broke out between Natives and settlers in the Rogue River …
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War Housing and Vanport
When war broke out, Portland was the only city on the West Coast without a public housing authority, yet it faced the most rapid increase …
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War Memorial, Lake County
This monument was erected at the Mitchell Recreation Area in the Fremont National Forest, Lake County, Oregon in memory of Elyse Mitchell and five children …
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Warm Springs Agency Boarding School, 1890
This photograph of the students and staff of the Warm Springs Agency Boarding School was taken in February 1890 The 1855 Treaty with the Tribes …
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Warm Springs Reservation Mill
In 1938, four years after the congressional passage of the Indian Reorganization Act, the Warm Springs tribes became officially incorporated as the Confederated Tribes of …
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War Relocation Authority Camp at Tule Lake
During World War II, the U.S. War Relocation Authority (WRA) built ten concentration camps for Japanese Americans. One of these covered 1,100 acres of Klamath …
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Wasco Full-Turn Twining
This photograph was taken by Nancy J. Nusz on February 8, 1991 to document Mary D. Schlick training apprentices (left to right) Pat Gold, Bernyce …
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Wasco-Style Sally Bags
This Wasco Sally Bag, named “Sturgeon Greet the Babies,” was made by Pat Courtney Gold, a member of the Wasco Nation of the Confederated Tribes …
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Wasco (Warm Springs) Reservation Map, 1855
From 1854 to 1855, Joel Palmer, the superintendent of Indian affairs for Oregon Territory, negotiated nine treaties between Pacific Northwest Indians and the U.S. …
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We're Going to Wyoming & Idaho
The August 1942 special edition of the Evacuazette, a newspaper published for people detained at the Portland Assembly Center in North Portland, provided news …
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