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To facilitate his historical research, Relander purchased a microfilm reader and personally transcribed thousands of pages of source documents. This collection includes typescripts of notes from historical government documents, books and articles, newspaper clippings, memoirs, letters, journals, diaries, interviews, and field notes.
The source documents Relander selected to transcribe covers a wide range of topics and contains a great deal of material for the scholar of Pacific Northwest history.
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Item "I expected to give you a written permission to pasture your sheep, as the police have orders to remove all persons found on the reservation without such written authority."(UNPUBLISHED, 1882) Milroy, R. H.; Fairchild, J. H.Miscellaneous correspondence transcribed from microfilm by Click Relander about grazing, fisheries, Dreamers, railroads, and schooling.Item Jim Weasletail - interview - Transcription.(UNKNOWN, 1962-07-01) Various"Jim Weasel Tail's father was the last man among the Blackfoot to use the bow and arrow to kill buffalo. Four to five relays of horses were needed to bring about a kill of individuals among a buffalo herd. As the buffalo were approached by the Indians, after the herd had been located and relays of horsemen posted at strategic points, they would begin their run, invariably into the wind. Hence it was possible to post the relay of riders, or horses. A buffalo hunter had four or five horses and would post these in position. Once on the run the buffalo herd would stampede, and from then it was a matter of the run."Item Newspaper clippings - Chief Moses of the Wenatchee - Transcript.(UNKNOWN, 1923) Various"Smohalla, the spiritualist and dreamer, is an Indian much inferior to Moses and subordinate to him. Smohalla is a medicine man of the Walla Wallas, and about 30 lodges pay him their allegiance. Personally he is about medium size, with a cunning and intelligent face, and has raised himself from a low position in his tribe to his present one by a skillful use of his own powers. He is of middle age. His allegiance to Moses dates from a personal combat between them about three years ago, in which the dreamer was soundly drubbed."Item Smohalla - Transcript.(UNKNOWN, 1951) Various"But the business of the commission was not over yet. It began now to investigate the 'Dreamer' religion of the Indians. Smohalla, also known as Yu-yan-i-pit-qu-na, The Shouting Mountain, a Walla Walla Indian with a slight, deformed body and an abnormally large head bent forward above humped shoulders, had been pointed out as the man responsible for this so-called sophistry. Joseph was said to be one of his followers and many of the other non-treaty chiefs and medicine men were called Dreamers because their statements seemed influenced by Smohalla's doctrines. The white men found it difficult to believe that Indians thought and that they created a philosophy and religion for themselves."Item Tommy Thompson - interview - Transcript.(UNKNOWN, 1953-08) Various"The drum sounded for the dance to start. One of the brothers felt queer like something was happening to him. So they started to run to the house where the Washat had started. Just before they got here the slowest brother fell to his knees like an animal. He felt something happening to him. His legs changed, hair spread over his body and his hands and feet turned to paws and he howled like a wolf and raced away. The other brother leaped hard and fell through the door into the Washat house and didn't change."Item US Commissioner of Indian Affairs - annual reports - 1871.(UNPUBLISHED, 1871) Winans, Wm. P.; Brunot, Felix R.; Wilbur, James H."Aenas: Long ago gov. Stevens by his treaty introduced law into this country. I was a boy. I heard what was said and kept the law in my heart. Today I see the commissioner from Washington. I am glad to see him. I never saw a man who talked good words to us before; my heart is glad."Item Wanapum Indians - interview - Transcript (part 2).(UNPUBLISHED, 1951-11-07) Various"One time we were in Yakima and drinking. They put us in jail. It was a long room with several others in it. There were bars of iron here. While we were there they brought it in a man for robbing a bank. They brought him and put him in a place by himself next to our place. We could look through a little iron door and see him. They put him in a chair and put handcuffs on his arms and legs and chained him to the chair. Then they went away. He laughed. He saw us looking at him and said: Pretty quick, I will be in there with you."Item Wanapum Indians - interview - Transcript.(UNKNOWN, 1951) Various"So Happy lived on hill, spring and trees, between Sourdough and cow canyon and river. Fence on south (fence line for cattle. Richmond's spring north and west.. Corrals along railroad track. Track runs west of road along river. Road along river crosses over track and goes up to So Happy's place or toward it. Camp of tribe up railroad track and between So Happu's place and railroad..river."