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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Power. 1933-08-19


    • Additional power dangled as plum

    • 1933

    • Additional power dangled as plum. - Another 140 horsepower of prime power for the Grand Coulee dam and all other dams in the Columbia river on this side of the line is being dangled as a plum before the eyes of the Columbia basin commission and...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Power. 1933-08-19
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Publicity. 1931-07-24


    • Women support basin project

    • 1931

    • Women support basin project. - Spokane federation delegates agree to write legislators at Washington. - Three new members. - Spanish vet's auxiliary, Appomattox circle and Spokane little theater group. - At a get-together meeting on the lawn of the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Publicity. 1931-07-24
    • State history. Native Americans. Health conditions. 1936-06-27


    • Indian office aids in fighting disease

    • 1936

    • Indian office aids in fighting disease. - General health of the red man found on the upgrade, with death rate cut by half. - "A bitter and relentless war, with the Indians as allies, is being continually waged with the aid of approximately 1,500...
    • State history. Native Americans. Health conditions. 1936-06-27
    • State history. Native Americans. Historical. 1936-09-10


    • Declares Indians were once sailors

    • 1936

    • Declares Indians were once sailors. - David B. Rodgers of the museum of natural history here expresses the opinion that Indians centuries ago conducted a coastwise ocean commerce among the islands of southern California.
    • State history. Native Americans. Historical. 1936-09-10
    • State history. Native Americans. Leases. 1937-01-23


    • Illegal leasing of Indian land charged

    • 1937

    • Illegal leasing of Indian land charged. - An investigation of complaints that Japanese and Filipinos have leased illegally Yakima Reservation lands in Washington State will be made by the Indian Service, Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Washington...
    • State history. Native Americans. Leases. 1937-01-23
    • State history. Native Americans. Legends & lore. 1936-02-14. p. 2.


    • Indian 'Gangsters' killed Minne-ha-ha

    • 1936

    • Indian 'Gangsters' killed Minne-ha-ha. - Ethnologist clears up mystery of death of heroine of Longfellow's epic. - A gruesome and previously unknown chapter to the epic of Hiawatha, telling how Minnehaha, the lovely laughing water of Longfellow's...
    • State history. Native Americans. Legends & lore. 1936-02-14. p. 2.
    • State history. Native Americans. Legends & lore. 1936-02-14. p. 1.


    • Indian 'Gangsters' killed Minne-ha-ha

    • 1936

    • Indian 'Gangsters' killed Minne-ha-ha. - Ethnologist clears up mystery of death of heroine of Longfellow's epic. - A gruesome and previously unknown chapter to the epic of Hiawatha, telling how Minnehaha, the lovely laughing water of Longfellow's...
    • State history. Native Americans. Legends & lore. 1936-02-14. p. 1.
    • State history. Native Americans. Legislation. 1937-05-13


    • $225,000 requested by Schwellenbach

    • 1937

    • $225,000 requested by Schwellenbach. - Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Washington asked congress today to appropriate $225,000 to build and equip hospitals for three Indian reservations in Washington.
    • State history. Native Americans. Legislation. 1937-05-13
    • State history. Native Americans. Legislation. 1937-07-27


    • Bill reducing water expenses goes to senate

    • 1937

    • Bill reducing water expenses goes to senate. - The senate Indian affairs committee has approved a measure providing for the reduction of annual construction roads against irrigable lands in the Wapato district from $2.50 to $1.25 per acre, a...
    • State history. Native Americans. Legislation. 1937-07-27
    • State history. Native Americans. Litigation. 1919-02-12


    • Overrules red in grazing fee fight in court

    • 1919

    • Overrules red in grazing fee fight in court. - Federal Judge Frank H. Rudkin Tuesday overruled the demurrer filed by Attorney Carrol B. Graves in the case of United States versus George Olney.
    • State history. Native Americans. Litigation. 1919-02-12
    • State history. Native Americans. Litigation. 1937-11-09


    • Indians sue bakery company for $17,300

    • 1937

    • Indians sue bakery company for $17,300. - Trial of the $17,300 damage suits of Andrew Aripa and Albert Gaze, Indians, against the Silver Loaf Baking Co., began in Judge J. B. Lindsley's court today.
    • State history. Native Americans. Litigation. 1937-11-09
    • State history. Native Americans. Miscellaneous. 1936-03-27


    • Indians father of American constitution?

    • 1936

    • Indians father of American constitution? - A theory that American Indians were the father of the United States constitution was advanced today by J. N. B. Hewitt, professor of Indian languages of the Smithsonian institution.
    • State history. Native Americans. Miscellaneous. 1936-03-27
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1929-06-22


    • Drunken Indian dies of wound

    • 1929

    • Drunken Indian dies of wound. - Paul Amtoine, notorious Indian of this district, who was shot twice in the abdomen yesterday by Sheriff B. T. McCauley after the Indian had attacked him, died at 8:20 o'clock this morning at the Okanogan hospital.
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1929-06-22

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