Clatsop

Statement No. 8a – Alexander Pellard, Jr. of Altoona

Statement No 8a

This document is a communication from the acting commissioner of Indian Affairs, detailing the rolls of certain Indian Tribes in Oregon and Washington in reference to an agreement from August 1851. It contains statement No. 8a from Alexander Pellard, Jr. of Altoona, a member of the Lower Chinook Indians, provided to Charles E. McChesney, supervisor of Indian schools, in 1906. This statement is part of the McChesney Rolls, identifying and recognizing enrolled Chinook individuals separately from any reservations. Published as House Document No. 133, 59th Congress, 2nd Session, Pellard’s sworn testimony records his age, and confirms that the information provided by his sister Adeline (Pellard) James was true in all respects.

1914 Lower Chinook and Clatsop Annuity Roll

Chief Comcomly

Annuity Roll, containing the names of surviving members and immediate lineal descendants of deceased members of the Lower Band of Chinook Indians of Washington, entitled to participate in the settlement provided by the Act of August 24, 1912

Clatsop Indians

Clatsop Indians. The Clatsop centered about Cape Adams, on the south side of Columbia River, extending up the latter as far as Tongue Point and southward on the Pacific coast to Tillamook Head.

Biography of Mrs. Helen Smith

MRS. HELEN SMITH. – There survives within the limits of the old Oregon no person whose life possesses more universal interest than the lady whose name appears above, and of whom we present an excellent portrait. The widow of a pioneer whose first operations upon this coast belong to the antique days of Wyeth and Kelly, her own memory extends to the remote times of the Astor expedition of 1811; and her infant life was contemporary with the explorations of Lewis and Clarke in 1805. The entire panorama of the occupation and settlement of our state has therefore passed before … Read more

Clatsop Tribe

Clatsop Indians. A Chinookan tribe formerly about Creek Adams on the south side of the Columbia River and extending up the river as far as Tongue Point and south along the coast to Tillamook Head, Oregon.

Biography of Dr. John McLoughlin

DR. JOHN McLOUGHLIN. – Doctor McLoughlin has been very well called the first real governor of Oregon. As chief factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company west of the Rocky Mountains, he was more than this; – he was autocrat. He was a great man, – large physically, of large views and ideas, and above all, very large-hearted. He was nearly forty years on this coast, and during that time was the chief man in it. The Indians called him the “white-headed eagle;” and the Whites went to him with their troubles. In a pathetic little manuscript found among his papers, … Read more