Fire fighting equipment for Indian forests of the Southwest / by Harold Weaver. [1950]

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Fire fighting equipment for Indian forests of the Southwest / by Harold Weaver. [1950]

60 leaves, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.

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Chief Billy Curlew was elected the leader of the Moses Band of the Confederated Tribe of the Colville Indians in 1936. In 1946, he was the ranking chief the Tribe. In the late summer, he went to visit Harold Weaver, Forest Supervisor, at the Colville Indian Agency in Nespelem, WA. Through the interpreter Harry Nanamkin, Chief Curlew told him that before it was too late he wanted to show them the old camp grounds and tell them their Indian names and history. He hoped that original Indian names mi...