Notes regarding Oregon materials on file at the Bureau of Indian Affairs [manuscripts], 1900-1910.

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Notes regarding Oregon materials on file at the Bureau of Indian Affairs [manuscripts], 1900-1910.

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Collection includes manuscript and typescript correspondence relating to materials at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., on which Joseph Rogers WIlson took notes in 1900 and have since gone missing; Manuscript notes, 1900, by Joseph Rogers Wilson, on same Oregon materials (1841-1850), most of it pertaining to Elijah White.

.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs

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The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) was formed in 1824. An agency of the federal government of the United States within the US Department of the Interior, it is responsible for the administration and management of land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans in the United States, Native American Tribes and Alaska Natives. From the guide to the Navajo Land, motion picture, undated, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah) A Statistics Section was organ...

Wilson, Joseph Rogers, 1847-1929.

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White, Elijah, 1806-1879

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Dr. Elijah White, pioneer physician and sub-Indian agent, was born in 1806 in New York state. In 1836, White was appointed by the Methodist Church to serve as a doctor at Jason Lee's Willamette Mission. He served at the mission until 1841, when he disagreed with Lee regarding mission policy and resigned, returning east by ship. In 1842, he was commissioned sub-Indian agent of Oregon by the federal government. His responsibilities as Indian agent concerned primarily the Nez PerceĢ and Cayuse trib...