#pnw history

[newhistorybooks]

Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River traces the stories of the radical Indian independence organization known as Ghadar and Bhagat Singh Thind’s era-defining US Supreme Court citizenship case. Ghadar sought the overthrow of India’s British colonizers while Thind utilized sanctioned legal channels to do so.

[vivian-bell]

Allen Ervin Flowers (left) and Louisa Flowers (right).  Photo taken 1910-1928.  Published by the Oregon Historical Society.  Photographer unknown.  

According to OHS, a note on the back of the photo reads “Mother and Dad Flowers on farm, north slope Mt. Scott”.

[dipstick-university]

yall ever look at photos of old world war vets and wonder. what the fuck. sending actual babies off to war.

[transitoryparentheses]

"A more substantive wave of Chinese migration to the Pacific Coast of the United States occurred over a half century later, in a more direct consequence of Western imperialism. Eager to control trade in Asia and to force open new markets, the British and other Western powers waged two wars with China known as the Opium Wars. The first was fought from 1839 to 1842 and the second from 1856 to 1860. China lost both wars and was forced into a series of unequal treaties that opened ports to foreign commerce, ceded Hong Kong and other territories to Western control, and granted extraterritoriality to British subjects and their allies operating in China."

- Seattle from the Margins (2022) by Megan Asaka, p. 32-33

Hmmm...now where have I heard recently about the US citing the control of trade as a valid reason to bomb certain parties exercising their right to sanction against commissions of genocide...

[echoazure]

In 2021, Lin, a molecular evolutionary biologist, was working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC when she came across a Hakai Magazine article about some very important, very furry little dogs. In February of that year, we published a feature by Virginia Morell about the wooly dog, an extinct dog breed domesticated by the Coast Salish people long ago. On the shores of the Pacific Northwest, Coast Salish people bred, raised, and sheared these dogs, using their wooly hair to weave blankets that were at once practical—the region is cold and damp—and symbolically and culturally significant.

Lin was stuck at home because of COVID-19 restrictions when she stumbled upon Morell’s story on social media. Like many people, Lin had never heard of wooly dogs and was unaware of the longstanding Coast Salish practice of canine husbandry. The piece piqued her interest. She was hooked by the image conjured in the story: “of these flocks of white hairy dogs surrounding a powerful woman.”

But to Lin, one detail in the story stood out above the rest: the tale of Mutton, a dog whose pelt, it turned out, had spent more than 160 years housed right where she worked.

[dewitty1]

Horses hauling a spruce, Washington state, 1905, photo by Darius… https://ift.tt/2x6Fk0S

[shockwake]

Robert W. Patten, the Iconic Seattle Street Character Known as the Umbrella Man

Robert W. Patten (1832–1913) was an American eccentric from Seattle, Washington. Few people in Seattle knew much about his past and he was seen as eccentric because of his lifestyle and outrageous claims. He lived on a houseboat, walked around town with an umbrella on his head and spent most of his time outdoors. He claimed to have been a significant historical figure in his own right rating alongside Buffalo Bill and Kit Carson.

[metamatar]

something something american necropolitics the tillamook county creamery association found online on tillamook dot com that sells many dairy products in the united states under the brand name tillamook has no relationship and makes no acknowledgement of the tillamook people from whom it get its name. the name comes from the chinook translation of the people of nehalem. early contact with european sailing ships is dated to the 1770s. in 1805 lewis and clark's "discovery" expedition noted at the time that many large villages had been depopulated by pandemics and many adults had smallpox scars. this followed a period of fur trading with the involvement of hudson bay corporation. in 1850, the us govt passed the oregon donation land act, announcing over 2,500,000 acres of land as available for settlers to seize, which happened in patterns whose violence mirrors that of the continent. there was no treaty. in 1907, the tribe sued and was paid 23,500 dollars for the land the us govt has seized from them when it forced them onto the siletz reservation. the tillamook language is a salishan language that lost its last fluent speaker in 1970. many descendants are considered part of the confederated tribes of siletz. other nehalem are part of the unrecognized clatsop nehalem confederated tribes. the nehalem-tillamook were also socially and economically integrated with the clatsop peoples. today the town of tillamook has a population that is only 1.5% native american. the modern day corporation started as a settler coop created in 1909. it is the 48th largest dairy processor in north america and posted $1 billion in sales in 2021.

[thecorpsofrediscovery]

Rural Decay Brownstown, Washington - April 2024 Photographer: Chris Rummel

[vintagecamping]

A group of entomologists stop for lunch somewhere in the Cascades Oregon

1975

[seabeck]

Nathaniel Sargent Lake and Rodney White Slough. These two bodies of water previously had racist names given to them but were recently renamed to honor two black pioneers

[newhistorybooks]

"In Season of Shattered Dreams: Postwar Baseball, the Spokane Indians, and a Tragic Bus Crash That Changed Everything, Eric Vickrey details the series of events that occurred before, during, and after the heartbreaking accident. Vickrey chronicles the often-overlooked impact that the end of World War II had on the major and minor leagues, now crowded with players returning from military service. The Spokane Indians were no exception, with several top prospects and former big leaguers arriving that season. The journeys of three Spokane players in particular—Vic Picetti, Ben Geraghty, and Jack Lohrke—reveal the impact of the war on players’ lives, the struggles of a minor-league career, and the devastating impact of that catastrophic crash."

[vivian-bell]

Two women, names unknown.  Photo taken 1904-1906.  Published by the Oregon Historical Society.  Photographer unknown.  

[orofeaiel]

Crashed B17 from 1952 which killed 3 out of the 8 aboard | Olympic Peninsula, WA

[echoazure]

There was the time when the Washington State Legislature banned “aliens” — including people of Japanese ancestry — from leasing land in the 1920s. It was a Yakama tribal member who told the family not to worry, that they could farm a portion of his land.

There was the time when the Inabas returned home to Wapato after they were detained in a government internment camp during World War II. Amid widespread discrimination, another Yakama man carved out a parcel so that the Inaba family could rebuild their farm.

“If it wasn’t for the Indian nation, we would never have been able to be here,” Shiz Inaba, 93, recalled telling Mr. Inaba, her son.

[dollartreelobotomy]

Northern State Hospital, Sedro-Woolley, WA 1930s