Northwest Native American and Tribal History

Fishing Operations and Activities files include documents relating to Alaska Native land and fishing rights.

materials related to Native American culture, including Attorney Frederick W. Post's files on Nooksack, Duwamish, Suiattle-Sauk and S'Klallam tribes' land claims cases before the Indian Claims Commission.

Available at Archives & Special Collections--Archives Building Center for Pacific Northwest Studies Archives Bldg. 225

Papers of a former chair of WWU Anthropology Department, including information on Northwest and Navajo Native peoples.

Includes images of the the Puget Sound Indian Fair, August 23, 1930 at the Swinomish Reservation, and canoe races near Coupeville, Washington.

Lithographs, and narrative accounts documenting explorations by British Naval officers including Captains James Cook and George Vancouver in the late eighteenth century. These documents reflect early European perspectives and depictions of Native and First Nations people and culture, including in the Pacific Northwest region.

Collection of a local historian that includes photographs, oral histories and research files, including substantial materials about the Lummi Nation.

Searchable description of over 7000 images housed at CPNWS.

copies of correspondence, published materials and reports relating to Washington State fishing laws and violations, fishing and the cannery industry, fishways and dams, fish hatcheries, and tribal fishing rights in the Pacific Northwest.

Includes research materials on Northwest Native American including textbooks and dissertations, photocopies of reports from the Bureau of Indian Affairs on Palouse and Yakima treaties, land claims, and land leases, and a Wilson Library bibliography on Indians of North America. Two unprocessed boxes contain copies of Akwesasne News

Includes research materials and articles re: First Nations people of Canada.

Papers of a former Washington State Senator and Representative for Washington State’s 2nd Congressional District. Include files relating to tribal issues, including education, fishing and fisheries management.

Available at Archives & Special Collections--Archives Building Center for Pacific Northwest Studies Archives Bldg. 225

discussion papers relating to Native Americans from the Northwest Coast Anthropological Archives of the Volkerkundliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft in Germany. Most of the papers are written in German.

oral histories (audio recordings and/or transcripts) relating to Pacific Coast Native American culture and to farming practices in the Chilliwack Valley of British Columbia.