Letter from Spokane. Returned from south. Notes hearing about differences between Wasco and Wishram ways of speaking. Went to Umatilla reservation, visiting Umatilla, Cayuse, and Walla Walla. Then went to Hood River where several tribes were for strawberry picking. Gives details of visiting Wasco above The Dalles, relation to the Klickitat. Details on the range of land used by a few tribes. Mentions visiting a white man named Gulick who married a Wasco and has been there since 1857. Made arrangements with him and a Wasco family to buy specimens. Wasco; Wishram; Umatilla; Cayuse; Walla Walla; Yakama; Klickitat; Chinook; Warm Springs
Returned from trip among the Yakama. Klicktats and Tenino people also prominent at Yakima Reservation, as well as small number of Wishram, Wasco, Cowlitz, and Wentachi. All these languages spoken there. Focused on basketry design questions as instructed, but asked some other ethnological questions that seemed important.
Hand-colored and annotated map depicting tribal home areas generally. Noted on map: "Boundaries between tribes are not defined in the traditions."; Base map: "Rand McNally & Co.’s Indexed County and Railroad Pocket Map and Shippers’ Guide of Oregon...." 1910.
Hand-colored and annotated map delineating distributions of numerous tribes (though not specially color-coded by tribe). Annotated portion of map includes northernmost Oregon, westernmost Idaho, and southernmost British Columbia. Also noted with title on map: "Boundaries between the tribes are undefined in all the traditions."; Base map: "Cram’s Indexed County Map and Shipper’s Guide of Washington." Geo. F. Cram, Chicago. No date.
Hand-colored and annotated map depicting the tribal and linguistic regions of numerous tribes. [On the map, the map number was originally given as Map (3), but was crossed out.]; Base map: “Rand, McNally & Co.’s Indexed County and Township Pocket Map and Shippers’ Guide of Washington...." 1909.
Hand-colored and annotated map delineating with hachures as well as by colors, “Columbia tribes or group,” “Central or Okangon group of tribes,” “Salish proper or Flathead group of tribes,” “Cour d’Alene” [names as written]. Notations on map: “Map showing early positions and approximate boundaries of tribes in portions of British Columbia, Alberta, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Wyoming. On the whole immediately (prior to the introduction of the horse, the North Western movements of Shahaptian, and Shoshonean bands in Washington and Oregon, the southern movements of the Blackfoot tribes, and the western movements of the Siouan tribes.” “Possibly on the whole circa 1700 A.D. for many of the tribes.” Specific tribes denoted [as spelled]: Salishan (comprising Lillooet, Thompson, Shuswap), Athapaskan, Chinookan, Kalapooian, Waiilatpuan, Lutuamian, Shoshonean, Shahaptian, Kitunahan, Algonquian, Siouan.; Base map: “Rand McNally & Co.’s Commercial Map of the Western States.” (c) 1908. 1910 printing.
Part of ACLS Collection, Item 59, "Annotated Maps and Notes to maps of the Pacific Northwest." These notes accompany 15 maps hand-annotated by James Teit, showing territories and language ranges in multiple period of Indigenous peoples primarily of the Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.