Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database

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- Install power poles at Coulee dam site
- 1934
- Install power poles at Coulee dam site. - Workmen today were digging holes for the poles to carry electric power from the west side of the river to Mason City. The poles, nearly 100 feet long, constituted one of the longest loads that has arrived...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Power. 1934-10-26
- America's first slums were built by the Indians!
- 1937
- America's first slums were built by the Indians! / by Dr. Frank Thone.
  The picturesque pueblos of the southwest please tourists and inspire architects, but they are dreadfully insanitary and science blames them for much of the long decline in...
- State history. Native Americans. Health conditions. 1937-01-03. p. 6.
- America's first slums were built by the Indians!
- 1937
- America's first slums were built by the Indians! / by Dr. Frank Thone.
  The picturesque pueblos of the southwest please tourists and inspire architects, but they are dreadfully insanitary and science blames them for much of the long decline in...
- State history. Native Americans. Health conditions. 1937-01-03. p. 2.
- America's first slums were built by the Indians!
- 1937
- America's first slums were built by the Indians! / by Dr. Frank Thone.
  The picturesque pueblos of the southwest please tourists and inspire architects, but they are dreadfully insanitary and science blames them for much of the long decline in...
- State history. Native Americans. Health conditions. 1937-01-03. p. 1.
- America's first slums were built by the Indians!
- 1937
- America's first slums were built by the Indians! / by Dr. Frank Thone.
  The picturesque pueblos of the southwest please tourists and inspire architects, but they are dreadfully insanitary and science blames them for much of the long decline in...
- State history. Native Americans. Health conditions. 1937-01-03. p. 7.
- America's first slums were built by the Indians!
- 1937
- America's first slums were built by the Indians! / by Dr. Frank Thone.
  The picturesque pueblos of the southwest please tourists and inspire architects, but they are dreadfully insanitary and science blames them for much of the long decline in...
- State history. Native Americans. Health conditions. 1937-01-03. p. 3.
- America's first slums were built by the Indians!
- 1937
- America's first slums were built by the Indians! / by Dr. Frank Thone.
  The picturesque pueblos of the southwest please tourists and inspire architects, but they are dreadfully insanitary and science blames them for much of the long decline in...
- State history. Native Americans. Health conditions. 1937-01-03. p. 4.
- Indians take annual salmon harvest
- 1936
- Indians take annual salmon harvest. - Exercising their age-old rights, dating back long before the advent of white men, Indians of the Columbia river valley are taking their annual harvest of salmon at Celilo Falls. Here is Chief Tommy Thompson of...
- State history. Native Americans. Fishing. 1936-09-16
- Opposition may be expected.
- 1937
- Opposition may be expected. - Opposition may be expected to any broad-gauged reclamation program. Farmers, just getting back on their feet after long years of privation, will selfishly oppose it because of a firm belief there are enough American...
- Northwest history. Irrigation & reclamation. Editorials. 1937-02-01
- Indians protest loss of fishing rights
- 1937
- Indians protest loss of fishing rights. - About 400 Yakima Federation Indians at their annual berry feast held in the "long house" near here Sunday of last week voted to protest the alleged violation of their hunting and fishing rights, guaranteed...
- State history. Native Americans. Fishing. 1937-08-20
- 1936 marks centennial of N. W. pioneers
- 1936
- 1936 marks centennial of N. W. pioneers / by Seth T. Woodard
  Fort Union, long since abandoned, was situated on the Missouri river near the mouth of the Yellowstone. It was built by the American Fur... company in 1830, and at the time of Governor...
- State history. Native Americans. Historical. 1936-03-13
- Old Indian braves notched their tomahawk to count victims
- 1931
- Old Indian braves notched their tomahawk to count victims. - Just as the bad men of the west put notches in the handles of their guns to mark the number of victims, the Indians who inhabited this area before the coming of the white men are supposed...
- State history. Native Americans. Historical. 1931-11-16
- Nation's greatest dam in the making
- 1936
- Nation's greatest dam in the making / by Raymond Tribble. - The building of the Grand Coulee dam, concrete pouring of which has been held up during cold weather, with the single exception of block 40, which has to be poured despite the weather,...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Feature articles, editorials, history. 1936-02-21.
- Machine age gives us Coulee project.
- 1936
- Machine age gives us Coulee project. - A resident of Heppner, in eastern Oregon, is having some yarn from his Angora goats spun on a spinning wheel brought long ago from Ireland. Mrs. Phil Hirl will spin the yarn, and Mrs. Ed Clark will knit the...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Feature articles, editorials, history. 1936-10-20.
- America's first slums were built by the Indians!
- 1937
- America's first slums were built by the Indians!/ by Dr. Frank Thone.
  The picturesque pueblos of the southwest please tourists and inspire architects, but they are dreadfully insanitary and science blames them for much of the long decline in...
- State history. Native Americans. Health conditions. 1937-01-03.
- Approval is won for the new project on the Columbia.
- 1937
- Approval is won for the new project on the Columbia. - The Deschutes river project is designed to irrigate 50,000 acres. To do this a dam 83 feet high and 3100 feet long will be erected about 40 miles north of Bend, Or.
- Northwest history. Irrigation & reclamation. Appropriations. 1937-11-17
- Indians found phone wire made good rings
- 1937
- Indians found phone wire made good rings. - When service failed, shiny copper ornaments on redskins gave clue to missing circuits. - When the telephone was beginning to lengthen its reach, in the early 'Eighties, it was decided to build a line in...
- State history. Native Americans. Historical. 1937-04-15
- Picking hops.
- 1937
- Picking hops. - A long caravan of Indians, astride their pinto cayuses, jogging along dusty roads through the sagebrush, was a scene familiar to all residents of central Washington at this season of the year some 25 years ago.
- State history. Native Americans. Labor & wages. 1937-09-30
- Indian leasing practice stopped
- 1918
- Indian leasing practice stopped. - Methods by which U. S. laws were thought to be thwarted are not permissible. - The juggling of Indian leases is not permissible under the law and a decision to that effect in the superior court here yesterday will...
- State history. Native Americans. Leases. 1918-04-15
- Indians need help by nation
- 1928
- Indians need help by nation. - Commissioner Burke would guard red men long time yet. - Prolongation of restrictions by the government on incompetent Indians, due to be lifted in 1931, will necessary for at least 25 years, Charles H. Burke,...
- State history. Native Americans. Leases. 1928-03-15