This web resource with 10 introductory essays, 2,300 images, and 7,500 pages of
textual sources is available on the University of
Washington Libraries Digital Collections and the Library of
Congress American Memory page. The site was developed in partnership with
the Museum of History and Industry and Cheney Cowles/Eastern Washington State
Historical Society. It was partially funded by a Library of
Congress/Ameritech Digital Library Grant.
This site provides a selection of primary and secondary sources relating to the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures. Primary sources include over 3,800 pages from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior from 1851 through 1908 and six Indian treaties negotiated in 1855 as well as 2,300 photographs. Secondary sources include 89 articles from the Pacific Northwest Quarterly and 23 University of Washington Publications in Anthropology.
The database is complemented by essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics. These essays include bibliographies and links to related text and images as well as study questions that K-12 teachers may use as they develop curricula in their schools.