Category Archives: Fort Umpqua

Jim Buchanan’s testimony at Chemawa

Posted on April 22, 2019 by shichils

This is the full document I mentioned yesterday. It’s a transcript of Jim Buchanan testifying before some Congressional reps visiting Chemawa in 1932. Frank Drew acted as interpreter. In 1990 Dr. Beckham added some editorial notes in square brackets (this … Continue reading →

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Well, THAT explains things a bit more

Posted on April 20, 2019 by shichils

Unidentified man in photo taken at Fort Umpqua, 1857-1862 So back in 2014 I wrote about finding an 1860s newspaper article on the Indians of the Alsea Subagency attacking an employee, Thomas Clark or Clarke (who was supposed to teach … Continue reading →

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Milhau’s Lower Umpqua wordlist, 1856

Posted on October 11, 2016 by shichils

Above: Image of man at Fort Umpqua, 1850s In my previous post I wrote about Dr. John Milhau’s wordlist of Hanis that he made in the autumn of 1856 while stationed at Fort Umpqua. He also made a word list … Continue reading →

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Puzzles in the First Coosan Wordlist, 1856

Posted on October 7, 2016 by shichils

In autumn of 1856, physician John J. Milhau was stationed at Fort Umpqua. At the time he was a young man of 28, and had been raised and educated in New York City. He wrote down word lists of what … Continue reading →

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150 year old photo

Posted on October 11, 2011 by shichils

A couple of years ago, Robert Kentta sent me an email of a photo of an unidentified Native man taken approximately 150 years ago at the military Fort Umpqua. It is in an archive back east (most of the surviving … Continue reading →

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