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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. P. 1925-09-23


    • John L. Wheeler is real pioneer

    • 1925

    • John L. Wheeler is real pioneer
      He is 81 years old--was with infantry at Fort Colville back in 1879.
      John L. Wheeler, pioneer soldier, formerly stationed at old Fort Colville, celebrated his 81st birthday last Saturday.
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. P. 1925-09-23
    • State history. Native Americans. Indian Affairs. 1936-03-24


    • Colville Indians discuss sawmill at meet saturday

    • 1936

    • Colville Indians discuss sawmill at meet Saturday. - West Fork property causes difference of opinion among tribal members. - Praise Dr. Curran. - Commend Indian doctor for efforts in territory; Finds places in hospital. - Colville Indians, members...
    • State history. Native Americans. Indian Affairs. 1936-03-24
    • State history. Native Americans. Indian Affairs. 1936-07-25

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    • 1936

    • A constitution for organization of the Colville Indians Tribal council was adopted at a meeting of Indians recently in Nespelem. Under the constitution, Colville Indians in the future will settle all matters pertaining to property rights and...
    • State history. Native Americans. Indian Affairs. 1936-07-25
    • State history. Native Americans. Allotments. 1923-07-15


    • Colville Indians seek funds

    • 1923

    • Colville Indians seek funds. - Claim that about $165,000 is due from government. - Hundreds of names of Colville Indians have been forwarded to the Indian department at Washington, D. C., asking for the release of the tribal funds accumulating in...
    • State history. Native Americans. Allotments. 1923-07-15
    • State history. Native Americans. Allotments. 1928-12-19


    • Claims Indians in dire straits

    • 1928

    • Claims Indians in dire straits. - Colville tribe seeks money from government. - Armed with a collection of testimonials from leading merchants serving the nine tribes represented on the Colville Indian reservation, Mrs. Mary Lloyd, herself a...
    • State history. Native Americans. Allotments. 1928-12-19
    • State history. Native Americans. Allotments. 1928-03-05


    • Colville Indians asking more cash

    • 1928

    • Colville Indians asking more cash. - Petitions asking for another per capita tribal payment for Indians of the Colville reservation and for funds to employ Attorney W. S. Lewis of Spokane to represent the Indians in all tribal matters, are being...
    • State history. Native Americans. Allotments. 1928-03-05
    • State history. Native Americans. Allotments. 1924-01-11


    • Pay cash to 2515 Indians

    • 1924

    • Pay cash to 2515 Indians.- Government to distribute $75,450 to wards on Colville reservation. - A per capita cash payment to about 2515 Indians living on the Colville Indian reservation in eastern Washington was authorized by the secretary of the...
    • State history. Native Americans. Allotments. 1924-01-11
    • State history. Native Americans. Crime. Murder. 1930-03-12. p. 2.


    • Indian girl faces murder trial

    • 1930

    • Indian girl faces murder trial. - When pretty 20-year-old Helen Moses, Colville Indian, went on trial for her life in superior court at Colville, this week, she seemed little concerned as to what awaited her at the hands of the jury. Smilingly, she...
    • State history. Native Americans. Crime. Murder. 1930-03-12. p. 2.
    • State history. Native Americans. Crime. Murder. 1937-04-10


    • Age and youth from Colville testify at Indian murder trial

    • 1937

    • Age and youth from Colville testify at Indian murder. - Age and youth from the Colville Indian reservation were called to the witness stand in federal district court Friday, where Baptiste Andrew is being tried on a first degree murder charge for...
    • State history. Native Americans. Crime. Murder. 1937-04-10
    • State history. Native Americans. Crime. Murder. 1930-03-12


    • Murder finger points at man
      Indian girl faces murder trial

    • 1930

    • Murder finger points at man. - Colville Indian girl expected to accuse alleged accomplice. - Helen Moses, accused murderer of Susie Moses, her mother, is expected to take the stand at Colville this afternoon, to testify that her lover, Clarence...
    • State history. Native Americans. Crime. Murder. 1930-03-12
    • State history. Native Americans. Relief. 1935-10-08


    • Colville relief plans complete

    • 1935

    • Colville relief plans complete. - Clothing donated by Spokane persons and organizations for use of Indians on the Colville reserve will be transported to the agency at Nespelem free of charge in Indian agency trucks, Harvey K. Meyer,...
    • State history. Native Americans. Relief. 1935-10-08
    • State history. Native Americans. Reservations. 1930-02-01


    • Few full-blood Indian families left on reservation at Colville

    • 1930

    • Few full-blood Indian families left on reservation at Colville. - That the Colville Indians of the present generation are widely intermarried is shown by statistics gathered at the Colville agency. A total of 370 of the Colvilles have spouses from...
    • State history. Native Americans. Reservations. 1930-02-01
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. S. 1936-06-13


    • Pioneer heads five generations

    • 1936

    • Pioneer heads five generations
      Mrs. Mary S. Jensen Sizemore, 80, Colville, Wash., a real outstanding pioneer of Washington, is shown here with her daughter, granddaughter, great-granddaughter and great-great-granddaughter. Mrs. Sizemore, born in...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. S. 1936-06-13
    • State history. Native Americans. Indian Affairs. 1935-01-09


    • Colville Indians may go in lumber business

    • 1936

    • Colville Indians may go in lumber business. - Tribal council votes to borrow funds to buy mill. - The Colville Tribal council voted yesterday to secure a loan of $120,000 from the Resettlement administration to purchase and operate the West Fork...
    • State history. Native Americans. Indian Affairs. 1935-01-09
    • State history. Native Americans. Indian Affairs. 1936-10-22


    • La Vatta helps Colville tribe

    • 1936

    • La Vatta helps Colville tribe. - George P. La Vatta, Portland, field representatives of the commissioner of Indian affairs, is at the Colville agency this week to aid in the adoption of a constitution and bylaws for the Colville tribal council that...
    • State history. Native Americans. Indian Affairs. 1936-10-22
    • State history. Native Americans. Allotments. 1916-05-20


    • Allotted land may be leased from Indians, tallman say

    • 1916

    • Allotted land may be leased from Indians, tallman say. - Homesteaders on Colville reservation to have a chance to enlarge farms. - "Lands which have been allotted to Indians having tribal rights on the Colville reservation may be leased from the...
    • State history. Native Americans. Allotments. 1916-05-20
    • State history. Native Americans. Allotments. 1937-04-30


    • $70,000 for Colville Indians.

    • 1937

    • $70,000 for Colville Indians. - Colville Indians will receive a per capita payment from the tribal funds totaling about $70,000 within a short time according to a dispatch received a few days ago from the Bureau of Indian affairs in Washington, D....
    • State history. Native Americans. Allotments. 1937-04-30
    • State history. Native Americans. Allotments. 1933-08-29


    • Colville reservation gets $65,000 U. S. cash

    • 1933

    • Colville reservation gets $65,000 U. S. cash. - Of the $2,820,000 allotted to the Indian service under the public works program the Colville reservation in Washington received $60,000 for a day school and $5000 for a cottage; the Fort Hall...
    • State history. Native Americans. Allotments. 1933-08-29

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