Causes of Conflict Research: Local Conflicts

• American Indians of the Pacific Northwest   American Memory collection of primary source photographs
• Trail Tribes This site studies the Lewis and Clark Expedition and cultural changes since the journey. Native American, historical, and scientific perspectives are presented. Select a section of the map to access video clips and information on traditional and contemporary culture of the area. Northwest tribes include Umatilla, Walla Walla, Cayuse, and Chinook. From the University of Montana-Missoula.
• Classics in Washington State History  Look at information in Native Americans and Pioneers
• Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation – Describes the effects of external forces on the Cayuse people.
• End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center – Oregon Trail History – Disrupting the Natives
• Historical Newspapers in Washington Begin your search with " Indians"
  
• Native American Cultures of the Pacific Northwest from the Library of Congress
  
• Oregon Trail Archive with diaries, memoirs, and books of the period
• Rocky Mountain Letters of Robert Campbell  In a letter to his brother, Robert Campbell relates how the Indians in the Rocky Mountain area lived in 1836.

• The Letters and Journals of Narcissa Whitman
• The Oregon Territory and Its Pioneers
• Whitman Massacre
• Whitman Massacre 
• Whitman Mission National Historic Site
• The Whitman Massacre Trial: A Clash of Cultures
• The Whitman Massacre as recalled by a letter written by Mary Marsh Cason, a survivor of the attack
• PBS New Perspectives on the West   Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
• Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History  Fourteen Die in the Whitman Massacre at Waiilatpu
• National Parks Service
• Defendant’s Request, Whitman Massacre Trial, 1851  Transcript of the trial of Telokite, one of the Native American defendants
• The Whitman Mission
• Pictures of artifacts from the Whitman Mission housed at the University of Oregon Libraries
• Missionaries in the Pacific Northwest from the Library of Congress
• Newspaper accounts from the time of the Whitman Massacre

Indians of the Pacific Northwest

• A Battle Over Bones  From Archeology magazine
  
• Bones Tell Ancient Tale of Kennewick Man   MSNBC news article
  
• Human Remains Should Be Reburied By Armand Minthorn, Board of Trustees member and religious leader with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
• Kennewick Man Virtual Interpretive Center
  
• Kennewick Man by James C. Chatters, owner of Applied Paleoscience, which emphasizes developing applications of archaeological and paleoecological data to modern resource management.
• Kennewick Man: On Online NewsHour Report links to the controversy surrounding court decisions about Kennewick Man
• Kennewick Man Archeology Program from the National Parks Service
• Kennewick Man On Trial from the University of Washington Burke Museum
• Kennewick Man Skeletal Find May Revolutionalize Continent's History
  
• Kennewick Man Yields More Secrets Seattle Times Newspaper article
  
• Kennewick Man Gives Up Secrets  Seattle P-I Newspaper article
• Meet Kennewick Man from NOVA Online
  
• Reburial Dispute  from Archeology magazine
  
• Scientists Finally Study Kennewick Man  from the British Broadcasting Company
• Scientists Win Kennewick Man Ruling  Seattle P-I Newspaper article