Monthly Archive: August, 2013

Tomanowish and the Nespelim riders, conversing in Chinook with the buckayros

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From a first-class book out of Washington State University Press in Pullman, WA titled Forgotten Trails: Historical Sources of the Columbia’s Big Bend Country by Ron Anglin (1995): Page 145: In July of 1858,… Continue reading →

Mary Moses’s statement

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Mary Moses’s Statement. Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon, 1988.  (No author or editor credited.) Another invaluable publication by Glen Adams about Inland Northwest history.  Man, the Ye Galleon catalog must be hundreds of items… Continue reading →

Opening the remaining half of the Colville Reservation to settlement, 1906

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The context of the book I’m blogging about today is that in 1906 there was a plan to throw open the remaining, southern, half of the Colville Indian Reservation in north-central Washington state… Continue reading →

Methow Valley, 1901: “I learned to speak their language, Chinook”

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From Diana Hottell’s “The Whole Damn Valley: Voices from the Methow” (2007, Winthrop, WA: Shafer Historical Museum), page 55, ‘Perry Clark on Indians’: “There were far more Indians than whites here during the… Continue reading →