Proceedings of the Wasco Council, 1855.

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Proceedings of the Wasco Council, 1855.

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Typescript copy of cover letter and report written by Joel Palmer, Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs, to George W. Manypenny, U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, containing the proceedings of the treaty negotiations conducted at the Wasco Indian Council held near The Dalles, Oregon (June 22-25, 1855).

18 p.

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Manypenny, George Washington, 1809-1893

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Indian commissioner. From the description of Letters of George Washington Manypenny, 1845-1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453826 ...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Oregon Superintendency

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Palmer, Joel, 1810-1881

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Joel Palmer was born October 4, 1810 in Elizabethtown, Ontario, Canada to Ephraim and Anna Palmer. When Joel was two his family fled the ravages of the War of 1812 and settled in the frontier village of Lowville in northern New York. At the age of twelve Joel was "bound out" (a form of indentured servitude) to the Haworth family in the Catskill Mountains. At age 16 he left the Catskills for Philadelphia where he married Catherine Caffee in 1830, who later died in childbirth. In 1836 Joel married...