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Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oregon Superintendency, roll 13, (duplicates).(UNPUBLISHED, 1853-02) Brooke, L.; Bromford, George C.; Starling, E. A.; Lea, L.; Alvord, Ben; Williams, Thos. K.; Thompson, R. R.; Trevitt, Victor"You may think the bill is larger than it should be but I have to keep one man at the house all the time and his board and wages will amount to more than I have. Since the cold weather commenced we have had to keep a fire for Indians as the house is full of them all the time and it is nearly as much as one man can do to get wood for them to burn and this being a government station we have a great many visitors from the neighboring tribes and we have to feed them and the chiefs expect a present of some kind whenever they come."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oregon Superintendency, roll 13, 1853 - 1855.(UNPUBLISHED, 1853-09-12) Starling, E. A.; Raymond, W. W.; Mix, Charles E.; Thompson, R. R.; Manypenny, Geo. W, Hon.; Simpson, George B.; Jenkins, William; Trevitt, Victor"I today received a communication from you in which you state that you are here for the purpose of relieving me of the office of Ind. Agent and desiring me to turn over to you all the books, papers etc. belonging to the agency etc. In reply I beg leave to state that I have received from Mr. Palmer, supt. of Ind. Affairs for Oregon territory an order to the like effect. I decline however doing so, at least until I can see or hear further from Mr. Palmer."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oregon Superintendency, roll 14 - 15, (duplicates).(UNPUBLISHED, 1856-04-15) Morris, T.; Wool, John E.; Thompson, R. R.; Hummason, O."I have ordered Lieut. Sheridan with a small detachment of Dragoons to join the detachment ordered for the protection of the Indians on the Coast Reservation."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oregon Superintendency, roll 14, (duplicates - part 2).(UNPUBLISHED, 1856-01-29) Thompson, R. R.; Stevens, Isaac I., Gov.; Cornelius, Thos. R.; Wool, John E.; Olney, Nathan; Morris, T.; Hummason, O."An additional express from Walla Walla came in last night with news that the battle with the Indians lasted four days in which some six of the volunteers were killed and several badly wounded."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oregon Superintendency, roll 14, (duplicates).(UNPUBLISHED, 1855-12-04) Manypenny, Geo. W, Hon.; Whitcomb, Lot; Wright, G.; Thompson, R. R.; Trevitt, Victor; Olney, Nathan"I have now to advise you that it is understood the military arm of the public service on the Pacific coast will be advised by the mail which is expected to leave New York tomorrow concerning their duties in this emergency."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oregon Superintendency, roll 14, 1856 (part 2).(UNPUBLISHED, 1856-01-20) Thompson, R. R.; Wool, John E.; Olney, Nathan; Hummason, O.; Palmer, Joel; Wright, G."A note from local Agent Jenkins informs me that a band of Clickitats numbering about fifteen men who went off on the breaking out of hostilities have returned to their old homes on the north side of the Columbia at Mr. Joslyns place opposite Dog River; from Indian information I learn they are willing to give up their arms and conform to anything we may require of them."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oregon Superintendency, roll 14, 1856 (part 3).(UNPUBLISHED, 1856-09-24) Thompson, R. R.; Manypenny, Gladys H.; Smith, Thomas H.; Bonnycastle, J.; Whitcomb, Lot; Wright, G.; Trevitt, Victor; Olney, Nathan"Your communications relative to the conditions of the Indians under my charge is before me, and in answer thereto I would inform you that during the present hostilities there were within this district about two thousand Indians who remained friendly toward the whites."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oregon Superintendency, roll 14, 1856 (part 4).(UNPUBLISHED, 1856-01-23) Steven, Isaac I., Gov.; Cornelius, Thos. R.; Olney, Nathan; Thompson, R. R.; Morris, T.; Wool, John E."Upon the departure of Mr. R. R. Thompson Ind. Agent for the Wallamette Valley he requested me to take charge of the district during his absence. Since which I have thought best to desire the band of friendly Cayuses encamped in the Walla Wallah valley to remove to the Nez Perce country there to remain until peace is declared or until such period as some other disposition may be advised by yourself."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oregon Superintendency, roll 14, 1856.(UNPUBLISHED, 1856-01-04) Thompson, R. R."Mr. Olney desires me to say to you that he did not appoint him as he informed me but merely requested him to act until your pleasure could be known."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oregon Superintendency, roll 15, (duplicates).(UNPUBLISHED, 1856-12-17) Manypenny, Geo. W, Hon.; Thompson, R. R.; Robie, A. H.; Dennison, A. P.; Daniel, J. R.; Mackall, W. W."He will make known to you the urgent reasons for our giving assistance to the Indians who this day start for the reservation."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oregon Superintendency, roll 15, 1857.(UNPUBLISHED, 1857-02-16) Thompson, R. R.; Wright, G.; Manypenny, Geo. W, Hon.; Geer, J. C.; Robie, A. H.; Dennison, A. P.; Mackall, W. W.; Daniel, J. R."My salary is private property and I cannot consent to have it applied to the liquidation of government liabilities. I am sorry that you were unable to satisfy the draft as it subjects me to repeated drains."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oregon Superintendency, roll 30, 1855 - 1866.(UNPUBLISHED, 1855-10-18) Palmer, Joel; Thompson, R. R.; Wampole, Elias; Tallman, W. A.; Cain, J.; Mackall, W. W.; Thomas, George F.; Blakely"I have but little time to write. We have an Indian war on our hands in the north, a war which in the results is likely to prove more disastrous to Oregon and Washington Territories than anything heretofore happening to us."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oregon Superintendency, roll 4.(UNPUBLISHED, 1854-01-07) Stevens, Isaac I., Gov.; Palmer, Joel; Thompson, R. R.; Mesplie, T."What suggestion would you make respecting the government of these tribes so as to prevent clashing and inconvenient interference between local agents? Would it be better to effect removal into one or another jurisdiction to unit with the authority of the department, in the selection of the agents, each being charges with half of his salary or do you consider the different bands or any of them as sufficiently distinct to be treated separately?"Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oregon Superintendency, roll 5, 1854 - 1855 part 2.(UNPUBLISHED, 1854-09-14) Thompson, R. R.; Olney, Nathan; Stevens, Isaac I., Gov.; Raines, G. I.; Manypenny, Geo. W, Hon.; Palmer, Joel; Geary, Edward R."The whites fired upon them killing three and wounding one, who made his escape. They then made prisoners of six others whom they found at the for (smudged with ink either fort or forks) and detained them until our arrival. They were found to be a friendly band belonging to the 'Bonac Tribe'."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oregon Superintendency, roll 5, 1854 - 1855.(UNPUBLISHED, 1854-08-15) Olney, Nathan; Thompson, R. R.; Palmer, Joel; Manypenny, Geo. W, Hon."Nothing has been learned by the troops who first arrived at this place under the command of Major Chinn of the number and whereabouts of the Indians since sending the first express to the Dalles."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oregon Superintendency, roll 5, 1855.(UNPUBLISHED, 1855-11-15) Thompson, R. R.; Palmer, Joel; Stevens, Isaac I., Gov.; Olney, Nathan"He thinks there is no danger of the Walla Wallas or Cayuses joining with the Yakimas. He saw and conversed with Five Crows on the subject and from him he learned that Owhi and a Paloose chief were killed in the engagement with Major Haller."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oregon Superintendency, roll 7, 1855.(UNPUBLISHED, 1855-08-14) Thompson, R. R.; Mesplie, F.; Palmer, Joel; Olney, Nathan"The laws and customs of their forefathers as handed down to them from generation to generation are rivewed with a sacredness bordering on devotion and are maintained with a zeal and tenacity truly astonishing. When therefore we see them discarding their own laws and adopting those of the whites we may indeed hope that the dark chambers of their understanding have been opened and that the efforts of the philanthroptic have not been altogether in vain."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington and Oregon Superintendency, fragments.(UNPUBLISHED, 1853-10-21) Olney, Nathan; Thompson, R. R.; Manypenny, Geo. W, Hon.; Palmer, Joel; Hale, C. H."I then informed the Indians that W. Panbrun was not authorized to dictate to them who should be their chiefs and that they should pay no manner of heed to anything he had said."