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Coll
292
Center for Columbia River History
Center for Columbia River History
collection
1854-2007
1990-2000
10.5 cubic feet
22 document cases and 1 card file box
Research files relating to aspects of
the Columbia River Basin, including environmental, social, political, and
cultural issues. Files were created by Donna Sinclair and Katrine
Barber.
Materials in the collection are inEnglish
Historical Note
The Center for Columbia River History was created in 1990. It was a
consortium of the Washington State Historical Society, Portland State
University, and Washington State University, Vancouver, and offered quality
history programs about the Columbia River Basin to the general public. It
cooperated with other institutions in the Columbia River area to promote
research, develop curriculum, teach special courses, publish materials in
electronic and text formats, and present public programs about the Basin.
Directors of the Center included Katrine Barber and Donna Sinclair.
The collection consists largely of working files of Donna Sinclair,
including subject files relating to the Columbia River Basin and its
communities. Materials include notes, correspondence, and copies of source
materials.
Materials are arranged in four series:
- Research Files--Umatilla
- Research Files--Cottage Grove
- Research Files--Columbia Slough
- General research files
The collection is open to the public.
The Oregon Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the
Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication,
and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Research Library
prior to any use of reproductions. The Society does not necessarily hold
copyright to all the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission
for use of reproductions may require seeking additional authorization from the
copyright holders.
Center for Columbia River History collection, Coll 292, Oregon
Historical Society, Davies Family Research Library
Acquired February 2012, Library Accession 27542
Oral history recordings acquired with this collection have been
transferred to the oral history collections of the Oregon Historical Society
Research Library.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Sinclair,
Donna
Barber,
Katrine
Center for
Columbia River History--Archives
Columbia
River
Columbia
Slough (Or.)
Cottage
Grove (Or.)
Umatilla
County (Or.)
Indians of North
America--Oregon
Indians of North
America--Washington (State)
Human
ecology--History--Oregon
Human
ecology--History--Washington (State)
Oregon
Washington (State)
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
Series A
Research Files--Umatilla
circa 1902-2000
undated
1/1
308 Reports
1943
undated
1/2
Umatilla Depot
1996-2000
undated
1/3
Umatilla Depot Cont.
1994-2000
undated
1/4
Umatilla Depot: Columbia Communities - Umatilla
Disaster
1955-1999
undated
1/5
Umatilla Working File: Umatilla River Basin
1946-2000
undated
1/6
Umatilla Working File: Section V Umatilla Site, Umatilla
Today & Tomorrow
1958-2000
undated
1/7
Umatilla Working File: Community History Biliography
CRBP
2000
undated
1/8
Umatilla Working File
1999
1/9
Dept. of Labor Reports
1988-2000
1/10
Program Manager for Chemical
Demilitarization
circa 1998-1999
2/1
Misc. Articles & Other Docs
1906-1999
undated
2/2
Misc. Articles & Other Docs Cont.
1912-2000
undated
2/3
Misc. Articles & Other Docs Cont.
1943-2000
undated
2/4
Umatilla Images
1947-2000
circa 1950s
undated
2/5
Oral History
1955
1981
2/6
Primary Docs.
1984-1999
undated
2/7
McNary Dam
1943 (?)
undated
2/8
Population Data
1999
undated
2/9
Northwest Passage, Journals of Lewis &
Clark
undated
2/10
Umatilla Chemical Depot
1998
2/11
The Forgotten Tribes, Oral Tales of the Teninos and
Adjacent Mid-Columbia River Indian Nations
1991
2/12
"Open the Columbia to the Sea" by Lee B.
Reeder
1902
2/13
McNary Telegram
1938-1958
2/14
Correspondence
1999
2/15
Umatilla Indians, CTUIR
1999
undated
2/16
Permissions to publish
1999-2000
2/17
Corps Report - McNary & John Day
circa 1971
2/18
Early Communities, Chinese
1999
undated
2/19
Umatilla Highway Bridge
1952-1957
Columbia Communities
3/1
Umatilla Research: Umatilla Maps
1964-1981
undated
3/2
Umatilla Research: Columbia Communities - Umatilla
Working File
circa 1994-1999
undated
3/3
Umatilla Research: Umatilla - Mexican
Americans
1998-1999
3/4
Umatilla Research: Umatilla To-Do
1954-2000
3/5
Umatilla Research--maps
1942
undated
4/1
Umatilla Photos
1999
undated
4/2
Umatilla Photos, continued
1992
1999
4/3
Dams
1975
1999-2000
4/4
Dams: Columbia Communities - Umatilla
Dams/Hydro.
1991-1993
undated
4/5
Dams: Section IV - Making Way for Umatilla John Day
Site
circa 1948-1999
undated
4/5
Dams: Section IV - Making Way for Umatilla John Day
Site
circa 1958-1999
undated
4/6
Dams Cont.
1983-1999
undated
4/7
To Add to Umatilla
circa 1952-1998
5/1
Umatilla oral history
1999-2000
5/2
Umatilla Indians
1957-1999
5/3
Umatilla Indians Cont.
1975-1992
5/4
Umatilla Research
1956-2000
6/1
Articles
circa 1984-2000
6/2
Colville
1990-2000
6/3
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
1999
6/4
Cascade Fishery--Paper by Robert C. Dunnell
undated
6/5
Celilo Village Indian Colony
1999
6/6
Klamath Tribe
1999
6/7
Kalispel Tribe
1999
6/8
Nez Perce Tribe
1999
6/9
Shoshone Bannock
1990-1999
undated
6/10
Yakama
1962-2000
7/1
Beckam, Stephen Dow, "Ethnohistorical context of
reserved Indian fishing rights : Pacific northwest treaties, 1851-1955" (report
for the court case "United States v. Washington")
1984
7/2
Sohappy Case
undated
7/3
Columbia Communities - River Indians - Wanapum, Native
American Research
1986-1998
7/4
Columbia River Community History, Airport History, St.
John's Landfill
1996
undated
7/5
Misc. Columbia Slough Documents (from black
binder)
circa 1942-1994
undated
7/6
Misc. Columbia Slough Documents Cont. (from black
binder)
1918-1972
7/7
Misc. Columbia Slough Documents Cont. (from black
binder)
1953-1996
8/1
Canada
1993-2000
undated
8/2
Umatilla
1996-1999
undated
8/3
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation, Its Resources & Development Potential
1976
8/4
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, "Training manual for
interpreters of McNary Lock and Dam"
1999 January
8/5
McNary articles
circa 1938-1961
8/6
Petticoat council
1950
undated
Includes papers by Shelly Furtner Wallace, "Umatilla's
'petticoat governemt' 1916-1920"
8/7
Pendleton Grain Growers, Army Depot
1998
undated
8/8
Umatilla, Columbia Slough, Cottage Grove--oral history
questions
1999-2000
8/9
Dam breaching
1999-2000
8/10
Dam breaching--Umatilla, Salmon
1999
Series B
Research Files--Cottage Grove
1854-2000
9/1
Cottage Grove Forestry
circa 1909
1970-2000
undated
9/2
Cottage Grove Forestry Cont.
circa 1913-1999
9/3
Dorena and Cottage Grove Dams
1935-1997
undated
9/4
Primary Materials/Images Permissions CG
1999-2000
undated
9/5
Cottage Grove Images
1898-1999
undated
9/6
CG Flood Events
1941
1970
undated
9/7
Bohemia Mining
1893-1970
undated
9/8
Bibliographies
1986
1994
undated
10/1
Misc. documents
1854-1996
10/2
Cottage Grove documents
1884-1999
10/3
Narrators (oral histories)
1999-2000
10/4
Willamette River today
circa 1969-1999
10/5
All-American city
undated
Series C
Research Files--Columbia Slough
1870-2000
11/1
Maps/General Info.
1974-2000
undated
11/2
Maps/General Info. Cont.
1979-2000
undated
11/3
Swindell Material--United States, Office of Indian
Affairs, Division of Forestry and Grazing, "Report on source nature and extent
of the fishing, hunting and miscellaneous related rights of certain Indian
tribes in Washington and Oregon together with affidavits showing locations of a
number of usual and accustomed fishing grounds and stations"
1942
11/4
Spokane Indians
1999
11/5
Burns Paiute
1997-1999
undated
11/6
Warm Springs - Oral History Project
1999-2000
undated
11/7
Corps Feasibility Study
1999
11/8
Misc. Documents
1964-2000
12/1
Slough Permissions: Slough - Images/Permiss.
Docs.
1999-2001
12/2
Slough Permissions: Oral History Permissions
1999-2000
12/3
Slough Permissions: Columbia Slough -
Correspondence
1999-2001
12/4
Slough Permissions: Columbia Slough - generaly info.
& project descriptions
undated
12/5
Slough Permissions: Oregonian Permissions
circa 1942-2001
12/6
Portland International Airport
1933-2009
undated
12/7
Columbia Slough Task Force
circa 1972
12/8
Columbia Slough Closure
1870
1997
12/9
Columbia Slough Closure, 1968
1969-1987
undated
12/10
Columbia Slough Closure - North Portland Peninsula
Study
1972
12/11
MDD #1 Scrapbook
1948-1993
undated
12/12
Our place : environmental community,
Roosevelt High School
2002
13/1
Kenton
1995-2000
undated
13/2
Neighbors Between the Rivers
1995-1999
13/3
Slough-Enviro: Slough - Pollution
1971-2000
13/4
Slough-Enviro: Misc.
1995-2000
13/5
Slough-Enviro: Fishing on the Slough
1994-1997
undated
13/6
Slough-Enviro: Slough - CSO's
1970-1997
13/7
Slough-Enviro: Col. Slough - Water Quality
1959-2000
undated
13/8
Slough-Enviro: Columbia Slough - Recreation (PIR) (Golf
Courses)
1972-2000
undated
Slough Communities
14/1
Columbia Slough Oral History Class, Geoff Weherell
paper
2000
14/2
Hayden Island/Bridgeton
1984-1999
14/3
Commercial Communities
1988-1998
14/4
Vanport
circa 1942-1990
14/5
St. Johns Neighborhood
1909-2000
14/6
St. Johns Landfill
circa 1971-2000
14/7
Whitaker Panels
circa 1994-2000
14/8
Portland Neighborhoods
1999
14/9
Japanese Americans
1980-1999
14/10
Japanese in Oregon
1995-1997
undated
14/11
Rivergate
1967-1974
14/12
Jantzen Beach Center
1927-1999
14/13
Hayden Island
1903-2000
14/14
Port of Portland
1972
14/15
Swan Island
1976
14/16
Columbia Slough Trail Project
1903-1996
14/17
Slough Organizations: Smith & Bybee Lakes, Audobon
1997-1999
14/18
Slough Organizations: Friends of Blue & Fairview
Lake
circa 1992-1999
14/19
Slough Organizations: Northwest Environmental Advocates,
Willamette Riverkeepers
undated
14/20
Slough Organizations: Columbia Slough Watershed Council
1999
undated
15/1
Oregon Historical Society oral histories
2000
15/2
CCRH Web Misc.
circa 1998-2000
15/3
CCRH Web: Columbia River Basin Project - Donna
[Sinclair]
circa 1997-1999
15/4
Community Hist. - Slough To-Do
crica 1972-2000
15/5
Maps: Columbia Slough Maps
crica 1915-2999
15/6
Maps: Basin Maps
undated
15/7
Maps: Misc.
1944
15/8
Slough - photos
circa 1998-2000
16/1
Slough - photos
1988-2000
undated
16/2
Slough oral histories
1999-2000
16/3
Slough Oral Hist.: Columbia Slough - Helen
Miles
2000
16/4
Slough - Primary Docs.: Misc.
1948-2000
16/5
Slough - Primary Docs.: Columbia Slough -
BES
1989-2000
16/6
Slough - Primary Docs.: Scanned Documents, Columbia
Slough
1946-1995
undated
16/7
Research - Slough: Research info. - Slough
1995-2000
16/8
Research - Slough: Slough articles
circa 1972-1997
16/9
Research - Slough: Misc. research materials
1945-1998
16/10
Columbia River Slough--Research notebook (Donna
Sinclair?)
undated
16/11
Slough capstones (Portland State University student
projects)
1993-2000
17/1
Planning Goals
1997-1999
undated
17/2
Erosion & Sedimentation
1997
1999
17/3
Columbia South Shore
1997-2000
undated
17/4
Floods
1970-1996
undated
17/5
Albina
1945-1970
1993
17/6
Maps
undated
Series D
General Files
1945-2007
OHS Oral Histories
18/1
Bernard Foster: OHS Oral History
2004
18/2
Bobbie Foster: OHS Oral History
1999
18/3
Mark Hatfield: OHS Oral History
1998
18/4
Malcolm Marsh: An Oral History
2007
18/5
Robert E. Jones: An Oral History
2007
18/6
Randall Kester: An Oral History
2006
Dissenters
19/1
American Rivers
1999
19/2
Bonneville Power Administration
1999
19/3
Christian Enviro Groups
1999
19/4
Breaching Dams
1991-1999
19/5
Columbia River History
circa 1995-2000
19/6
Vanport Flood--Microfilm from Multnomah County Sherrif's
Office "Flood property thru slavaged autos."
circa 1946-1948
Original color slides depicting damage from the 1948 flood in
Portland have been separated to Org. Lot 1218, Oregon Historical Society
Research Library.
19/7
Columbia R. - method
circa 1984-1998
19/8
Columbia River Alliance
1999-2000
19/9
Columbia River Basin and Estuary--Report by Angus
Duncan, et. al., "Overhaul of maintenance : a review of existing and proposed
governance institutions in the Columbia River Basin and Estuary."
1999 January
19/10
Columbia River United
1999
19/11
Columbia and Snake Rivers Campaign
1999
19/12
CRITFC ISSUES (FOR CIARIC)
1996-2000
19/13
Current Issues
1999-2000
19/14-19/15
Current Issues--Clippings
1999-2000
20/1
Current Issues--Clippings
1999-2000
20/2
Dams - Breaching
1995-2000
20/3
Dams - History
1977-1998
undated
Includes: "Presentation for the Oregon Historical Society," by
Katrine Barber, 1998 May 16; "The Dalles Dam : the death of Celilo Falls and a
native culture," by Cathy Alzner, 1995 June 7.
20/4
E. Oregon Trip
2000 May
20/5
Endangerd Species Act, National Maritime Fisheries
Service
1990-2000
20/6
Endangerd Species Act, National Maritime Fisheries
Service, Federal Energy Regulation Commission
1993-2000
20/7
Ferries project
2002
20/8
Fish/CCRH
1976-1999
20/9
Fish - Idaho Statesman
1968-1998
21/1
Friends of Columbia Gorge
1999
21/2
Hanford - CCRH
1989-1999
21/3
Hanford Reach
1999
21/4
Harvest
1998
21/6
Hells Canyon CCRH
1970
21/5
Hatcheries
1998
21/7
General Outline of subjects (Managing the Columbia River
oral history project)
undated
21/8
General River Management
1976-1999
21/9
Grand Coulee Dam
1958
1971
21/10
Grazing--magazines
1993
21/11
Idaho - General pamphlets
undated
21/12
Idaho Politics
1996-1998
21/13
Idaho Rivers United
1995-1998
undated
21/14
Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Mgmt.
1998-1999
21/15
Irrigation
1978
1998-1999
21/16
Koberstein Articles
1999
21/17
Lewis & Clark Conference
2000
21/18
Names of Resources and Potential IVs, CCRH
1949-2000
21/19
Native Americans
circa 1998-2000
21/20
Native American Fishing Rights
1999
21/21
New CCRH Articles
1999-2000
21/22
Nuclear (issue of the
Boise weekly)
1998 May 7-13
21/23
Umatilla, Oregon Oral History Project,
1999-2000
1983-2000
21/24
Pollution
1997-1999
22/1
Research (the Orange Folder)
circa 1999-2000
22/2-22/3
Power Issues ("That Dam File")
1945-2000
22/4
Publications Addressing Salmon Crisis
1997
2000
22/5
River Network
circa 1998-2000
22/6
Salmon Recovery - general
circa 1998-2000
22/7
Save Our Wild Salmon
1999
22/8
Treaties - General
1999-2000
undated
22/9
Tribes
1996-1999
undated
Includes papers by Cain Allen, "They called it progress : water
development projects and the marginalization of Native Americans on the
Columbia."
22/10
Trojan
1971-1991
22/11
Umatilla Reservation - general
1993-2000
22/12
Water Policy--"Ecosystem values and governance in
western river basins : a commentary and proposal," Angus Duncan
1997 May 15
22/13
Watersheds--
History, science, the law, and watershed
recovery in the GrandeRonde : a case study by Angus Duncan, published
by Sea Grant
1998
22/14
Wild salmon forever : a citizens' strategy
to restore northwest salmon and watersheds, Save Our Wild Salmon
Coalition
undated
22/15
Willamette River (article by Bill Monroe)
2001
CFB-1
Computer diskettes
circa 1999-2000