University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
3907 (Accession No. 3907-001)
Buchanan, Charles Milton, 1868-1920
Charles Milton Buchanan papers
1897-1914
3 microfilm reels :
positive
Collection materials are in
English.
Papers pf a
physician, government agent, school superintendent on Tulalip Indian
Reservation
Physician, government agent, school superintendent on Tulalip Indian
Reservation.
Charles Buchanan (1868-1920) was born in Alexandria, Virginia. Soon
after finishing his medical education, he accepted a position as resident
physician on the Tulalip Indian Reservation (near Everett, Washington) in 1894.
Buchanan remained at Tulalip until his death. During his years at Tulalip, he
assumed additional duties as the government reduced the number of agents on the
reservation. He became superintendent of the school and the reservation and
also became agent for neighboring reservations such as Swinomish, Lummi and
Suquamish. Buchanan was a sympathetic defender of the Indians in his charge. He
attempted to protect them and their lands from outside incursions. He organized
courts on the reservation with Indian judges and policemen who were effective
in most cases.
The Charles Buchanan papers were sorted by Manuscripts staff prior to
microfilming. The bulk of the papers consist of Buchanan's writings, which have
been alphabetized by title. In addition to the writins, a number of documents
were found among Buchanan's papers which relate to an investigation he
conducted into the murder of David Te'use, whom Buchanan had appointed judge,
treated as a subject series.
Three scrapbooks comprsed primarily of newspaper clippings were
included among the Buchanan papers. Only selected pages from two of these
scrapbooks were filmed. The unfilmed scrapbook consists primariy of clippings
from Seattle newspapers. From the two other scrapbooks, pamphlets and clippings
of writings by Buchanan and articles about the Tulalip Reservation were
selected for filming. Also excluded from the microflim were duplicate copies
and published material.
The papers in this accession consist primarily of Buchanan's private
papers and research. Records from Buchanan's administration at the Tulalip
Reservation may be found in the records of the Bureau of Indian Affairds
(Record Group 75) at the Nationl Archives and Records Administration, Seattle
Branch.
Microfilmed correspondence, writings, speech, scrapbooks, photographs,
clippings, subject series; 1897-1914, no date.
Open to all users.
Request at UW
Creator's literary rights retained. Contact repository for
details.
The Charles Buchanan papers were loaned to the University of
Washington Libraries for microfilming in 1987 by Nancy L. August.
Received 12/1/1987
Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
Buchanan, Charles Milton, 1868-1920--Archives
Anderson, Ada Woodruff, 1860-
Tulalip Indian Reservation (Wash.)
Authors, American--Washington (State)
Indian agents--Washington (State)
Indian reservations
Physicians--Washington (State)
School superintendents--Washington (State)
Chinook language
Medicine--Practice--Washington (State)
Indians of North America--Education
Indians of North America--Folklore
Indians of North America--Government relations
Indians of North America--Languages
Indians of North America--Social life and customs
Snohomish Indians
Education--Washington (State)
Indians of North America--Washington (State)
Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific
Folklore--Northwest, Pacific
Education--Washington (State)--Snohomish County
Native Americans
Photographs
Scrapbooks
1
Biographical Features
undated
1
Incoming Letters: Anderson, Ada
Woodruff
1903
1
Incoming Letters: Conover, C. T.,
Crawford & Conover
1909
1
Incoming Letters: Field Columbian
Museum, Chicago (George A Dorsey)
undated
1
Incoming Letters: Shaw, George
C
1909
undated
1
Outgoing Letters
1909-1922
1
General Correspondence: The
Macmillan Company Publishers
1913
1
General Correspondence: St. Louis
Courier of Medicine
1899
1
Writings: Aboriginial
Art
undated
1
Writings: Aeneas
undated
1
Writings: Big Ignace
undated
1
Writings: A Dissertation upon the Snohomish Indian
Language
undated
1
Writings: Father Pierre (scheme for a book)
undated
1
Writings: History of a Science
undated
1
Writings: The Indian: His Present Status and His Probably
Future
undated
1
Writings: Indian Legends
undated
1
Writings: Indian Totem Legends
undated
1
Writings: Lessons on Indian Grammar
undated
1
Writings: Moses
undated
1
Writings: Pickett and His Men
undated
1
Writings: The Race
undated
1
Writings: Reverend Father Eugene Casimir Charouse, OMI and
an unnamed mansucript on Father Charouse
undated
1
Writings: Seattle: A Poem
undated
1
Writings (published short stories): The Potlatch of
Pulkode
undated
1
Writings (published short stories): The Last Journey of
Eenath
undated
1
Writings (published short stories): The Vengeance of
Sub-oh-lit-zah
undated
1
Writings: Sign Language
undated
1
Writings: Some Fugitive Thoughts and Reflections upon
Indian Medical Practice, Customs, Beliefs, Superstitions, etc., among the
Indians of Puget Sound
undated
1
Writings: Some Medical Customs, Ideas, Beliefs and
Practices of the Snohomish Indians (published)
undated
1
Writings: Some Phases of Religious Beliefs among Puget
Sound Indians
undated
1
Writings: Stories from the Sdoh-hohbsh and Other
Sources
undated
2
Writings: Suggestion (for a story)
undated
2
Writings: Tulalip Agency and School
undated
2
Writings: Untitled, on Puget Sound Indians and US
Government
undated
2
Writings: The Vengeance of Sub-oh-lit-zah: or the Quest of
Blood- see Short Stories
undated
2
Writings: Fragments- Indian Customs and
Practices
undated
2
Writings: Notes
undated
2
Speech
undated
An Address in Chionook delivered at the launching of the Steamer
Suquamish, Seattle, Washington, April 23rd, 1914 (includes English
translation)
2
Writings of Others: Powell, J W
Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages, 1880;
completed by Rev. Myron Eells with Squakson dialect of the Nisqually tribe,
Washington, 1878
1897
2
Writings of Others: Miscellaneous
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2
Publication- The North American
Indian- 1926 Year Book
1926
2
Photographs
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2
Clippings
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2
Subject Series: Trial for the
murder of David Te'use- notes of witness' accounts, testimony
1900
2
Subject Series: Lea family
genealogy (Anne Lea Buchanan)
undated
3
Scrapbooks- selected
pages
undated