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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • State history. Native Americans. Indian Affairs. 1928-05-21


    • Most of Indians nearly in want

    • 1928

    • Most of Indians nearly in want. - Special government survey declares situation is virtually national emergency. - Contrasting poignantly with the prevalent slant on the Indian which pictures him either as driving in luxurious limousines purchased...
    • State history. Native Americans. Indian Affairs. 1928-05-21
    • State history. Native Americans. Irrigation. 1931-10-21


    • Indians want water on land.

    • 1931

    • Indians want water on land. - Ask whites' support in request to government for 12,000 acre project. - Says dry laws safe. - Major General Smedley Butler Avers "Wet Howl," but other vote. - Two thousand Yakima Valley Indians, of the White...
    • State history. Native Americans. Irrigation. 1931-10-21
    • State history. Native Americans. Schools. 1929-10-01


    • Indian tribes want schools

    • 1929

    • Indian tribes want schools. - Counties said to favor transfer of reservation supervision to them. - A growing interest on the part of Indian parents in the education of their children is observed throughout the government's reservations by the...
    • State history. Native Americans. Schools. 1929-10-01
    • State history. Native Americans. Treaties. 1931-02-22


    • Indians want $3,000,000

    • 1931

    • Indians want $3,000,000. - Spokanes sign contract with lawyers in land suit. - Spokane Indian tribes that contend they were never paid $3,000,000 due them for lands west of Spokane county, and from the Spokane river south to Washtucna, yesterday...
    • State history. Native Americans. Treaties. 1931-02-22
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Surveys. 1934-06-18


    • Want ten days along Columbia

    • 1934

    • Want ten days along Columbia. - Army engineers who surveyed the Columbia river and the board of rivers and harbors have recommended as the ultimate development of the Columbia river a series of 10 dams to cost $772,000,000 including interest...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Surveys. 1934-06-18
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Surveys. 1935-11-19


    • Want Columbia to be surveyed

    • 1935

    • Want Columbia to be surveyed. - Plans to make the Columbia river region the objective for an expedition by the National Geographic society went forward today with the naming of a subcommittee of the publicity tourist bureau of the Chamber of...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Surveys. 1935-11-19
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1933-10-25


    • Want big locks at Bonneville.

    • 1933

    • Want big locks at Bonneville. - Representatives of many mid-Columbia river points will meet at Goldendale, Wash., tonight to urge the support of Washington communities of the proposal to construct navigation locks at the Bonneville dam of...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1933-10-25
    • State history. Columbia Basin. General. 1928-11-02


    • Want west to view basin

    • 1928

    • Want west to view basin. - Interior secretary may be asked to visit project. - Suggestions that Secretary of the Interior West be invited to inspect the Columbia basin before the next session of congress were made to the Columbia basin executive...
    • State history. Columbia Basin. General. 1928-11-02
    • State history. Columbia Basin. General. 1923-02-01


    • Want Columbia basin probe

    • 1923

    • Want Columbia basin probe. - Seattle engineer ask legislature to investigate irrigation project. - An appeal to the state legislature to reopen investigation of the proposed Columbia basin irrigation project in eastern Washington, construction of...
    • State history. Columbia Basin. General. 1923-02-01
    • State history. Columbia Basin. General. 1932-03-25


    • Want support at once for Basin.

    • 1932

    • Want support at once for Basin. - At no time since its inception has the Columbia basin project stood in a more advantageous position than now, N. W. Durham, veteran supporter of the project, declared at a meeting at the Davenport today.
    • State history. Columbia Basin. General. 1932-03-25
    • State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1925-03-23


    • Want basin in senate hearings

    • 1925

    • Want basin in senate hearings. - Trustees would include project in Portland conference program. - Trustees of the Columbia Basin Irrigation league at their Friday conference in Portland will seek to have the Columbia basin project included in two...
    • State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1925-03-23
    • State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1929-10-18


    • Want basin meet biggest ever held

    • 1929

    • Want basin meet biggest ever held. - The largest attendance in the history of the Columbia Basin Irrigation league's eighth annual convention at the Davenport hotel, October 26, was urged today by Roy R. Gill, chairman of the executive committee.
    • State history. Columbia Basin. Irrigation League. 1929-10-18
    • State history. Columbia Basin. Legislation. 1926-12-18


    • Want basin bill to bide its time

    • 1926

    • Want basin bill to bide its time. - Senate and house irrigation chairman urge delay until next congress. - Agree on school lands. - Western representatives accept Secretary Work's outline of state title legislation. - Chairman Phipps of the senate...
    • State history. Columbia Basin. Legislation. 1926-12-18

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