400 results for: Indigenous Peoples
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Yvonne Wanrow, February 17, 1976
Yvonne Swan Wanrow is an activist advocating for the rights of Native Americans and women. She is a member of the Colville Tribes of eastern Washington. On August 11, 1972, Wanrow shot and killed a convicted sex offender when he attempted to assault her young son. She was convicted of murder and sentenced to twenty years in prison, but appealed…
ID Number:2000.107.222.03.02
Date:1976
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Yvonne (Wanrow) Swan and her daughter sitting on steps, April 7, 1983
Yvonne Swan, formerly Yvonne Wanrow, is an activist advocating for the rights of Native Americans and women. She is a member of the Colville Tribes of eastern Washington. On August 11, 1972, Wanrow shot and killed a convicted sex offender when he attempted to assault her young son. She was convicted of murder and sentenced to twenty years in prison,…
ID Number:2000.107.222.03.03
Date:1983
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Yvonne (Wanrow) Swan, April 7, 1983
Yvonne Swan, formerly Yvonne Wanrow, is an activist advocating for the rights of Native Americans and women. She is a member of the Colville Tribes of eastern Washington. On August 11, 1972, Wanrow shot and killed a convicted sex offender when he attempted to assault her young son. She was convicted of murder and sentenced to twenty years in prison,…
ID Number:2000.107.222.03.04
Date:1983
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Bernie Whitebear reading proclamation ending protester's encampment at Fort Lawton, Seattle, April 3, 1970
On March 8, 1970, about 100 members and sympathizers of United Indian People's Council (later United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, or UIATF) occupied Fort Lawton, a 1,100-acre army post in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood. They were inspired by the passage of a bill signed by President Richard Nixon, which granted non-federal entities the ability to obtain surplus federal lands for…
ID Number:2000.107.230.06.02
Date:1970
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Leo Whiteford at Puyallup tribal substance-abuse treatment center, March 19, 1990
This photo shows Leo Whiteford, who was in charge of the Puyallup Indian substance abuse treatment center, sitting at the center. The Serenity Prayer, written by Reinhold Niebuhr and adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in 1942, is painted on the wall behind him. As of 2019, the Puyallup Tribe's Community/Family Services Program continues to provide drug and alcohol screening, assessments…
ID Number:2000.107.230.07.01
Date:1990
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Jim Robideau and others at BIA protest, Seattle, November 6, 1972
On November 2nd, 1972, several hundred Indigenous people occupied the headquarters of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in Washington, DC. They presented 20 demands for better conditions for Indigenous peoples in the United States, including reform of the BIA, enforcement of existing treaties, protection of Indigenous lands, and improved treaty procedures. Over the following days, BIA offices in other…
ID Number:2000.107.19721106.1.24
Date:1972
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, taking a sample for testing at the Monsanto plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.22
Date:1973
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, checking production at the Monsanto Corporation plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.23
Date:1973
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, at a desk at the Monsanto Corporation plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.30
Date:1973
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Judge Kathleen Bishop outside the Nisqually Tribe Community Church where she holds court, 1977
Kathleen L. Bishop Turner (1915-1978), a member of the Snohomish Tribe, was active in Native American affairs throughout her life, following in the footsteps of her father, Senator William Bishop, who was the first Native American to serve in the Washington State Legislature. She devoted most of her live to the preservation and promotion of Native American traditions and culture.…
ID Number:2000.107.19770420.1.38
Date:1977