History and Heritage Links

British Columbia Heritage                                Go to link: https://heritagebc.ca/

Oregon History Project____________________Go to link: https://oregonhistoryproject.org/

Washington State History Link                       Go to link: http://www.historylink.org/

Steep Trails by John Muir

A beautiful account in the tradition of the great naturalist and preservationist; elegant, sturdy, equally lush and lucid in observation and description. Chapters 17-23 cover the journey from Vancouver Island to the rivers of Oregon, including an exhilarating ascent of Mount Rainier. 

To read Steep Trails online, visit Project Gutenberg at: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/326 

For more on John Muir, visit Sierra Club's online John Muir Exhibit at: vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/ 

The Ozette Whaling Village

Few archeological discoveries have altered the course of Native American studies, politics, and living culture like those of the well-preserved artifacts and intact longhouses that surfaced in 1970 during a winter storm on an Olympic Peninsula beachfront in the land of the Makah Nation. Aside from confirming the tribe's oral traditions, work on the Ozette Whaling Village project would usher in a promising age of cooperation between scientists and indigenous peoples throughout the region and across the North American continent. For more on the Makah Museum, visit: http://makahmuseum.com/about/ozette-archaeological-site/

For a 2022 BBC travel report on the Ozette Village and historic Makah Nation Museum, visit: www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220605-ozette-the-us-lost-2000-year-old-village 

The Inland Empire History from the Archives of KSPS-TV

Real People: Episode 1 of 9; A Season Of Grandmothers

Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHK54u59d7w

Rail, Rocks, and Rangeland

Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfYatuBq68g

Remembering Spokane

Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdTZRlN-DAM

Okanagan Okanogan: Reclaiming the Art of Living on the Earth

Reclaiming the weave of human and nonhuman relations that have shaped the place we call the homeland since time immemorial is no easy task. But poet-historian Harold Reinisch has done just that over the course of some 15 years from his residence in now British Columbia and extending wherever the story should lead him across the Cascadian bioregion. To experience the journey, visit his ample blog at: okanaganokanogan.com/  

A collection of poetry by Harold Reinisch, Salmon Shanties, University of Regina Press, 2024, is available in stores and from online booksellers.

Rural Heritage from the Washington State Library

An archival network of history and heritage that features and serves rural communities while providing an online resource for libraries and researchers. New locales are added to the interactive map and index as developed.

 Go to link: https://www.washingtonruralheritage.org/

The Ghadar Party - Astoria, Oregon ( Photo Above )

The Ghadar Party Plaque in Astoria, a proud commercial fishing port, commemorates the founding of the Ghadar Party at the city's Finnish Socialist Hall in 1913. The movement began with a group of immigrants known as the Hindustani Workers of the Pacific Coast. Drawing from the ranks of subcontinent Asians living in Canada and the United States, the organization aimed to overthrow British colonial rule in India by galvanizing international support among diaspora Sikhs, Hindus, and Muslims. The plaque is an important site for residents of the Astoria community, tourists from India, and Indian communities across the United States.

From Oregon Encyclopedia online: www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/east_indians_of_oregon_and_the_ghadar_party/ 

Unconventionally Yours: June and Farrar Burn

June Burn's unconventional autobiography, "Living High", first published in 1941, recounts a remarkable 20th century love story born of a self-styled passion for a homesteading life and the call of the open road. A generous, 2005 review of the book, written by editor Noel V. Bourasaw of the Skagit River Journal, is available online. It is just one of the SRJ's innumerable personal histories and local records of reminiscence drawn from the regions of northwest Washington State and southern British Columbia. Subscriptions or donations appreciated.

Go to link: http://www.skagitriverjournal.com/WA/Library/Burn/Burn01-BookBios.html.

Oregon Experience - Oregon Public Broadcasting

Oregon's Black Pioneers ____________________________Go to link: https://www.opb.org/television/programs/oregon-experience/article/oregon-black-pioneers-documentary/

Beyond the Wire: Oregon's Japanese-Americans______Go to link: https://www.opb.org/television/programs/oregon-experience/article/oregon-japanese-americans-history/

Massacre at Hells Canyon___________________________Go to link: https://www.opb.org/television/programs/oregon-experience/article/massacre-at-hells-canyon/

The Way to the River

This 10-minute, fund-raising trailer to a documentary about an often-forgotten struggle of the 1960s Civil Rights movement, one that would eventually lead to a new era of legal recourse for American Indian Tribes with regard to fishing-rights and past treaties signed. Although protests like the one at Frank's Landing on the Nisqually River were typically confrontational and sometimes violent, the battles would serve in the long-term as a wake-up call for addressing indigenous rights, environmental degradation, and salmon sustainability.

Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRfC0SA7OEs

Oregon Governor Victor "Vic" Atiyeh

The son of Syrian immigrants, Democrat Atiyeh served as Oregon's 32nd governor from 1979-1986 and was the American nation's first governor of Syrian-American heritage.

Go to link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Atiyeh

Soon We Will Be Ghosts

Remembrance. Reflection. Gathering the stories around you, taking them to heart and giving them presence. Thanks to Si Matta and The Haven Films.

Go to link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORl0eFXkMYk

The Columbia ( 1949 ) with songs by Woody Guthrie

Opinion and concern about energy policy, conservation and resource management have evolved significantly in the decades since this film was made. Still the 20-minute documentary by the US Department of Interior has much to say on the confluence of forces that comes to bear on real people and real events while it also demonstrates graphically in retrospect the constructs and constraints of history presented as public relations.

Go to link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdAsjbJDTEM

The Gur Sikh Temple Abbotsford BC

Established in 1911 by pioneers from the Punjab region of India, the Gur Sikh Temple in the Fraser River Valley recalls the modest beginnings of what has become one of British Columbia's many thriving Asian communities.

Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OFz96fztOA

A Long Walk Near Forgotten

In 1896, Helga Estby and daughter Clara walked over 3500 miles from Spokane WA to New York City on the hope that doing so might spare the family farm. A courageous feat, and a story that refuses to stay buried in the dustbins of untold women's history. From Washington State History Link.

Go to link: http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9847