• Copied newspaper clipping about John C. Ewers, chief ethnologist for the Smithsonian Institute, and drawings of artist Gustavus Sohon. 

  Unknown (UNPUBLISHED, 1967-10-10)

  Copied from an article in the Tacoma News Tribune. Includes a photograph of John C. Ewers.
• Article clipping from the Yakima Republic: White Bluffs-Hanford picnickers tell of days before atom age evacuation. 

  Relander, Click (UNKNOWN, 1953-08-03)

  Written by Click Relander, the article gets the history of the area from those who lived there, at their annual picnic at Prosser City Park. The Wanapums, their neighbors, are also discussed.
• Pacific Northwest-Southwest Intertie Proposals. 

  Unknown (Unknown, 1963-04-16)

  Both the original full sized print and newspaper article show the "eight proposals for an electric energy transmission between Pacific Northwest and Pacific Southwest."
• Cake secrets. 

  Barton, Frances Lee (Unknown, 1928)

  Produced by Swans Down Cake Flour, this cookbook is indeed full of tips and tricks, alongside the recipes, each of which uses their product. Long section of frosting recipes, as well. Color illustrations on most pages. ...
• Relander's pilot log with clipping about his solo flight. 

  Relander, Click (UNPUBLISHED, 1939-01-07)

  "Visalia Newsman Makes Solo Flight. Click Relander, city editor of the Times-Delta and son of C. F. Relander, president of the Visalia Real Estate Board, today held a temporary student pilot certificate, following completion ...
• Clipping from the Yakima Republic about The Yakimas, with purchase request annotated at top. 

  Relander, Click (UNPUBLISHED, 1955-06-03)

  "Saluskin contributed a section on tribal lore and present day problems. Even the treaty as ratified in 1859 after it was negotiated at the council grounds at Walla Walla by Gov. Isaac I. Stevens is reproduced in the 30,000 ...
• Newspaper clipping with various event information. 

  Unknown (UNKNOWN, 1960)

  Includes Maryhill Museum of Fine Arts, John W. Graham Co., Washington State College, and others.
• "Almost too much in one short year to have Thunder-in-Mts. die twice, a solving of the Perkins murder and Moses standing trial." 

  Unknown (UNPUBLISHED, 1966-11)

  Referred to enclosure attached to envelope.
• Clippings sent about Relander and the Wanapum Indians. 

  Ward, Mrs. G. E. (UNPUBLISHED, 1956-11-29)

  "If you go to Priest Rapids on the Columbia river during one of the Wanapum Indian feasts and see a blanket-clad white man going through the traditional rites with the Indians, you can be fairly safe in betting that it is ...
• "Will you please tell me are any Tribes of Indians in State of Washington, allowed to spear salmon at the dams...." 

  Vance, Fred M.; Vance, Harriet A. (UNPUBLISHED, 1962-01-15)

  "My father, the late Woodruff Vance worked on your paper around the year 1913. He wrote an article for magazine of New York Times, in 1919 - about the Indians spearing salmon at the dams, according to treaty signed by ...
• Correspondence from Pearl A. Relander. 

  Relander, Pearl A.; Relander, Geraldine (UNPUBLISHED, 1956-12-20)

  "I guess you think I took you at your word about not answer--each letter you wrote but I really did intend to write sooner. Some things get in the way and I get a little upset ever things in the east, and so that's the way it is."
• "We had long planned to take a trip up the Columbia to the Wanapum dam site...." 

  Rice, Dorothy Forney (UNPUBLISHED, 1961-04-18)

  "My husbands great grandmother was a sister of Chief Leschi + lived at Fort Nisqually. His grandmother after recalled walking, as a small child, with her mother every day to Fort Steilacoom to bring Leschi clean clothes + ...
• Collection of correspondence from Irving Petite. 

  Petite, Irving (UNPUBLISHED, 1955-09-14)

  "Thanks for your fine story on the dedication of the Satus Long House. I will probably not be able to sell the idea to the Times. They have used 8 of my stories on the Yakimas in the past year and this is 7 or 8 more than ...
• Collection of correspondence from John M. McClelland, Jr., editor of the Longview Daily News. 

  McClelland, John M. Jr (UNPUBLISHED, 1952-10-06)

  "Relander makes one understand the power of Snowhala and the frustration that marked his later years and tragic end. In doing so he touches on a great deal more than the Wanapums."
• "We heard from President Eisenhower last week; that is, his brother Edgar got a note from him." 

  McCallum, John (UNPUBLISHED, 1960-01-05)

  "Yesterday I picked up a copy (autographed) of Six Roads From Abilene from Edgar Eisenhower for your Eisenhower High School. Could you arrange with some one out at the high school for me to go out and officially present ...
• "It was I, who sent the telegram to stop any article about my book, 'Black Sand and Gold' until you heard from me." 

  Martinsen, Ella Lang (UNPUBLISHED, 1956-11-21)

  From enclosure: "If you want action, the genuine kind that keeps your eyes glued to the pages of a book, try this work by a Santa Barbaran."
• "Why not do a quicky story for me on the Wanapums for the Rodeo edition and over it we could give you a mention of the book." 

  Kaynor, Clifford (UNPUBLISHED, 1956-10-26)

  "Perhaps you have seen the review of your book, which was finally printed Tuesday. Hope it helps the sale. I think you did a mighty fine job."
• Collection of correspondence from Robert B. Jim. 

  Jim, Robert B. (UNPUBLISHED, 1962-04-12)

  "We don't know the score finally as yet, but we are trying it has become quite a pressure deal and a war of nerves. We think we have a chance and I swear every couple days for luck."
• Collection of correspondence from Jimmie James. 

  James, Jimmie (UNPUBLISHED, 1953-04-25)

  "Jimmie James - Man of Letters. Meet a fascinating guy, if ever there was one! The Associated Press, out of Washington, D. C., picked up Anselm's protest against injustices to the American Indian. Soon letters started ...
• Collection of correspondence from Bob H. Hansen. 

  Hansen, Bob H. (UNPUBLISHED, 1956-09-17)

  "I'm now trying to reach the local TV people to see if they'd be interested in interviewing you and your troupe next month on your tour. When I get them canvassed I'll drop you a note about it."

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