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Item Survival of American Indian Assoc. Inc.(UNPUBLISHED, 1955) Swindell, Edward G., Jr.; Meeker, EzraIncludes three items: Governor Steven's written report of the proceedings of the Medicine Creek Treaty of 1854 from Edward G. Swindell, Jr.; Treaty with the Nisqually, Puyallup, Ect. known as the Medicine Creek Treaty; Medicine Creek Treaty review (1905) by Ezra Meeker.Item Swindell Report - transcript (part 2).(UNKNOWN, 1942) Swindell, Edward G., Jr."Affiant further deposes and says that in addition to the Indian village located at Rock Creek, as above described, there were other Indian villages and fishing paces as follows: 1-Wah-pykt, sometimes known as Wishram. The Indian meaning for Wah-pykt was 'water falls' and it was located on the Washington side of the Columbia River. 2-There was another village below Wah-pykt known as Skein which was also located on Washington side of the river. Its name meant 'cradle board,' and it was so named because the camping grounds of the people who lived there were in the shape of the cradle board used by the Indians."Item Swindell Report - transcript (part 3).(UNKNOWN, 1942-07) Swindell, Edward G., Jr."How-pa-la-I-ya-ca-tats. A usual and accustomed fishing ground of the Indians of the Cayuse and Umatilla tribes now residing on the Umatilla Reservation. The place pictured is located near the confluence of Eagle and Patty Creeks, Oregon. It is no longer used. In old days the Indians caught salmon and trout at this place through use of grabhooks and spears."Item Swindell Report - transcript (part 4).(UNKNOWN, 1942) Swindell, Edward G., Jr."Big White Salmon River, Washington-Indian fishing camp located at the mouth of the river. Strips of salmon being cured on the racks. This camp is located within the area flooded by the Bonneville Dam and on stream used by government in connection with its White Salmon fish hatchery. The Indians nowadays obtain their fish from hatchery employees who after stripping the eggs turn the carcasses over to the Indians."Item Swindell Report - transcript (part 5).(UNKNOWN, 1942-07) Swindell, Edward G., Jr."Affiant further deposes and says that prior to the time that the number of fish that were in the river were made so small on account of the activities of the white man in constructing dams and catching very large quantities of same, there were many places utilized by the various Indian tribes marking up the Yakima nation for permanent village sites as well as temporary fishing camps; that it was customary for the Yakima Indians to travel around within the country with which they were familiar for the purpose of obtaining supplies of fish as well as supplies of roots, berries, venison and other wild animal meat; that nowadays there are only a few places of that nature that are used by the Indians due to the fact that almost all of the old places have been destroyed and are no longer of any practical value to the Indians."Item Swindell Report - transcript.(UNKNOWN, 1942) Swindell, Edward G., Jr."The area ceded by the Indians is described in the nine treaties covered a very large portion of the two territories. That area however does not coincide with the area which today still remains subject to the rights established in favor of the Indians by the fishing clause in their treaties. There are two reasons for this; first, some of the tribes have been held to have lost their treaty rights, as for example the Nez Perce and the Tribes of Middle Oregon and second, some of the tribes belonging to the western group and known as the fish eating Indians either were not parties to a ratified treaty containing the fishing clause reservation, as for example the Chinooks, Chehalis and Cowlitz, or else had failed to comply with the several other provisions of their treaties with regard to removal to reservations to be established for them, etc."