Oral history interviews with Ed Davis, 1969-1972

Tribal fishing and hunting rights, Indian and U.S. government relations, land claims and ownership, mills at Snoqualmie Falls, logging, and Ed Davis' education, employment, and family

Logging, mills, and Ed Davis's family history

Chairman election and council politics, and logging for the Pacific Coast Company

Indian and U.S. government relations, reservations and settlements, and the Indian Shaker Church

Ed Davis's employment history, including logging and logging camps

Salmon fishing (gill net, bag fishing, etc.), steelheads (planting in different creeks), discussion about how tribes should work together to achieve their objectives rather than separating themselves

Discussion about treaties with Governor Stevens, Chief Seattle, and reservations; transfer and sale of Indian lands; Lake Washington and rivers (including Green, Duwamish, and Sky rivers), discussion about people and their relationships, homes, and jobs

Jack Chisholm's family, car troubles with Fred Allen, Indian Shaker Church, fishing (smelt and salmon), and animals (deer, bear, and beaver trapping)

Food preparation (drying, salting, and smoking), pole cutting, logging at Vaughan Hill, and skid roads

Indian custom marriage, land ownership, religion (Indian Shaker and others), and discussion about Indian history (Governor Stevens, treaties, and longhouses)

Discussion about Al Williams's funeral and the Indian Shaker Church

Logging, salmon, and the Indian Shaker church

Discussion about land sales, followed by an Indian Shaker church sermon

Religious ceremony, including a sermon by Ed Davis

Discussion about the Indian Shaker Church, including land claims, difficulties with the Full Gospel Church, construction of the church, the 1910 Corporation, and other history

Stories about different people, including Ralph Phillips and family, Bill Pete, and Ed Davis's ancestry

Discussion about a shingle mill and people who worked there, logging, and stories about different places including Tradition Lake and a rock mountain near Duvall

Religious ceremony with chanting, ringing bells, and singing

Discussion about the church at Muckleshoot, building the church, and three different types of Shakers (Full Gospels, Independents, and Annie Lee)

Discussion about buying a chain saw and filling out a form

Fishing and salmon bakes, Ed Davis's appeal dismissal re: his enrollment to share in Duwamish judgment funds, discussion of Davis's ancestry, the Duwamish tribe, and Snoqualmie tribe organization

Discussion of church and religion

The Moses family in Renton, fishing and fish traps, and the Indian Shaker Church

Discussion about different people and their families

Indian Shaker Church ceremony, followed by a discussion about the church and different people

Spearing salmon, logging, Indian doctors and medicine men, and an Indian Shaker Church ceremony led by Ed Davis

Indian Shaker Church event, salmon, treaty rights, gun laws, and exploitation of reservation land

Discussion of songs during the Sunday service, commercial fishing/sale of salmon on reservations, and steelhead fishing

Animal trapping and hunting, land in Suiattle and Darrington, reservations and registering other land, and work in a silica/talc mine

Discussion about a foster care case and that family's difficulties

Choir practice for a Christmas service, Indian rights and how different tribes manage their affairs, specifics of treaty rights (including clam digging and the trade and sale of fish and fur)

Longhouse on Lake Sammamish, discussion with a woman about Indian words for different creeks and animals, and Indian stories (including one about Mt. Si)

Snoqualmie River and various creeks, and the Indian names for them

Discussion about a family's difficulties, Jack Chisholm's jobs and Indian/U.S. Government relations

Phone conversation about Snoqualmie Indian concerns about blasting at Mt. Si, actions they need to take to prevent it, and Snoqualmie history

Logging and shingle mills, Indian Shaker Church and other religions, Indian Shaker incorporation papers, and Indian legends

Stories about animals, Tradition Lake, and Joy Lake

Brief discussion about Ed Davis's family and friends, followed by a presentation about teaching math

Ed Davis's will and real estate transactions

Indian stories, Indian rights and mining rights, salmon and rivers, and an interview with Martha about words in her language and her memories from childhood

Discussion about where homes and mills were located along an unidentified lake, road signs and speed limits, and Ed Davis's Snoqualmie and Duwamish ancestry

Education of Indian children and the pros and cons of public and Indian schools, different roads near Preston and Issaquah, Indian medicine and health care, Cushman Hospital, Indian languages, and logging

Discussion about different people, marital troubles, and alcoholism

Marital and custody troubles, reservations and schools, the Indian Shaker Church and missionaries, and traveling to Victoria

Drying and smoking fish, hunting, the Snoqualmie claims deal case, discussion about how people traveled in the past, preparations for the Mt. Si court case and protecting Mt. Si

Discussion about paying taxes or exemption of land for the church

Discussion about images in a slide show from a woman's trip to Scotland, different people and their health, huckleberries and berry picking, and church ministers and missionaries

Mud Bay and longhouses at Lake Sammamish and Neah Bay

Indian Shaker Church sermon

Singing and drumming, prayer, and conversation about how young people can perform the songs and dances but do not know their meaning

Discussion about the significance of Mt. Si in mythology and the ongoing controversy with quarrying, what Indians were promised in Governor Stevens's treaty compared to what they actually received, Indian ideas of land ownership before white settlers, and Indian land rights

Pacific Northwest history (including Governor Stevens, Indian land title, the five nations in Western Washington, Indian land, and the Wheeler-Howard Act), buying land and how to get land for the Snoqualmie, discussion about how the Snoqualmie tribe was not recognized by the state and nominations for a committee to work on the tribe's reorganization, and gillnet fishing

Indian Shaker Church service and discussion about a building proposal for the Lower Snoqualmie Valley

Proceedings from the Indian Council, including discussion about hunting and fishing according to the treaty, history of the treaty and action taken on it, the Northwest Federation of American Indians, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Congress of American Indians

Proceedings from the Indian Council, including discussion about various claims, including claims to fishing rights, and compensation for lands ceded under the Treaty of Port Elliott

Indian Shaker Church service and prayers, Indian stories, and history including a discussion about gold mining and relations with the British

Fishing in different rivers and streams, the Bible, ancient civilizations, prayers, history of the Fraser River area and the gold rush, and the Indian Shaker Church

Indian Shaker Church service

Indian words for place and river names, colors, and animals and the creation of an Indian language dictionary, and discussion about Indian Shaker Church services and fellowship meetings for different churches

Indian Shaker Church service and discussion about different people who had been at the service

Discussion about obtaining forty acres of Tulalip land for a Snoqualmie village, driving around Washington, and spinning wool

Discussion about church, school, and other activities on the Muckleshoot reservation

Indian Shaker Church service

Talk about people in foster care and on welfare

Indian Shaker Church service

Indian Shaker Church service

Salmon runs, different types of salmon, salmon drying, rivers and canals

No transcript: note on tape says audio is not good

Locations of strawberry and raspberry fields, camps, logging, Indian Shaker Church service, and discussion about Shakers and the Full Gospel Shakers

No transcript: Lola Belle Holmes speaking at North Bend

No transcript: Julia Brown speech and questions