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NOTICES

JASPER G. AND MINNIE STEVENS LITERARY PRIZE

The Oregon Historical Society is accepting submissions for the Stevens Prize competition. The prize, with a cash award of $3,000 and publication of the manuscript by the Oregon Historical Society Press, recognizes the best original fiction or nonfiction literary treatment of Oregon history. Submission deadline is September 1, 2006.

For more information, including submission guidelines, visit www.ohs.org/publications or write to: Stevens Prize, Oregon Historical Society, 1200 S.W. Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205; press@ohs.org.

2007 STERLING FELLOWSHIPS IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST HISTORY

The Oregon Historical Society is accepting applications for Donald J. Sterling, Jr., Research Fellowships to encourage research in Pacific Northwest history. Two fellowships are available — a $2,500 Senior Fellowship and a $2,000 Graduate Research Fellowship. The application deadline is October 31, 2006.

Recipients are expected to complete a four-week residency in the Oregon Historical Society Research Library and submit a written report and article for possible publication in the Oregon Historical Quarterly. For additional details, contact: Richard Engeman, Public Historian, Oregon Historical Society, 1200 S.W. Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205; (503) 306-5247; fax (503) 221-2035; richarde@ohs.org.

OHS RESEARCH LIBRARY RECENTLY PROCESSED COLLECTIONS

Organized Lot 104
Guide to the Lee Moorhouse Photographs circa 1897–1919

The Lee Moorhouse photographs consist of photographic prints, photographic postcards, and one cyanotype taken by Maj. Lee Moorhouse in about 1897–1919. Many of the photographs are portraits of Native Americans of the Columbia and Umatilla River basins in Oregon, taken by Moorhouse in about 1900–1912 and including members of the Cayuse, Nez Perce, Umatilla, and Walla Walla tribes. These photographs also include views of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and other unidentified Native American settlements in Oregon. There are also some photographs of members of the Yakama tribe, and these images may have been taken by photographer Thomas H. Rutter, who photographed the Yakama until his death in 1906; Moorhouse collected many of Rutter's negatives and sold them as his own. Several other photographs in this collection depict landscape views of the areas in which Lee Moorhouse lived and worked with Native Americans, such as the Columbia River Basin, including Celilo Falls; the Umatilla River in Oregon; and the Little Bighorn River Valley in Montana. These landscape views were all taken in about 1897–1905.

The collection also contains photographs of the Pendleton Round-Up taken by Moorhouse in about 1909–1919. Subjects include various rodeo events, such as bronc riding, bull riding, and steer roping and photographs of the Cowgirl's Bucking Contest, which was discontinued after 1929, as well as Round-Up parades and participants, including African American, Native American, and women performers. Additionally, there are two photographs by Moorhouse of other Round-Ups in Crooked River, Oregon, and Toppenish, Washington.

Mss 442 — Guide to the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Records, 1855–1957

The collection consists primarily of two distinct groups of records: those of the Siletz Agency in general, dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; and those of the Chemawa Indian School near Salem, dating mostly from the 1930s. Also included are a small number of records from the Grande Ronde agency.

A substantial part of the Siletz Agency records consists of correspondence between the agency and the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., 1875–1899, with a gap between 1884–1889. Also among the Siletz records are checkbook stubs (1890–1917), Indian court cases (1873–1895), Indians' bank registers (1906–1928), census records of Siletz (1885–1929) and Grand Ronde (1885–1909) agencies, marriage and death records from the early twentieth century, and financial records of the reservation. The Chemawa School records include correspondence files; surveys of former students, with information on the students; lives and work histories; supply records; Civil Works Administration records; and materials relating to a vote on the tribal constitution, 1936–1937.

Microfilmed records include register of vital statistics (1910–1918); physician's semi-annual report (1914); fiscal year summary (1909–1915); Siletz Indian Reservation school vouchers (1908–1910) and inventory of all property; list of students at Chemawa School (1926–1935); Yaquina vocabulary; unpublished manuscript, "A visit to the tribes of the Siletz Agency," by James Owen Dorsey; reservation constitution and bylaws; tribal council minutes (1931–1954) and resolutions; business correspondence (1935–1955); budgets (1950–1955); congressional bills (1948–1955); Department of the Interior information service releases and conferences; and historical notes.

CORRECTIONS

The Spring 2006 issue of the Oregon Historical Quarterly (107:1) included an error on page 89. The photograph caption identifies a wooden walkway in the picture's foreground as St. Helens Road. St. Helens Road can be seen at the far left of the photograph, closer to the water's edge. The editors regret the error.

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