Documents Archive and Questions to Consider:
Part I - The Cascade Indians
Cascade
Indian Tales
Questions to Consider:
How did the Cascade Indians
view animals and the natural world?
Lewis's
description of the Camas-Washougal area
Lewis's description of Cascade Indians' dwellings
Herbert Beaver 1842 Letter
to the Aboriginal Society
Questions to Consider:
How did Euro-Americans
view the Cascade Indians?
What factors influenced
those views?
1849 Journal
entries from Major Osborne Cross
Questions to Consider:
What were Major Osborne
Cross' fears concerning the Cascade Rapids?
1850 Donation Land Claim
Act
Questions to Consider:
Who was eligible for
land under the Donation Land Claim Act?
How much land could an
eligible person receive?
Early
Town History
Newspaper
Article: "Paper mill at LaCamas"
Newspaper
Articles: "A flourishing town"
Questions to Consider:
What natural and human
factors fueled the settlement of LaCamas?
Newspaper
Article: "... was refused a license to open
a saloon..."
Questions to Consider:
What was the tone or
perspective of the author? What does the reporter advocate?
The History of Prune
Hill
Questions to Consider:
What factors have influenced
land-use change on Prune Hill?
Part II - Company Town
1919
Article: "Ancient history in Camas"
Newspaper Article: "Old
timers recall early days at Camas Inn" Questions to Consider:
How did ethnic tensions
develop in Camas between 1884 and the 1920s?
Questions to Consider:
Who built the Camas
Inn? Why was it built?
Executive Order 11246
Newspaper Article: "Woman easily adjusts to supervisor position"
Newspaper Article: "Full Utilization Employment Attitudes Important"
Newspaper Article: "Full Utilization of Women, Minorities Required"
Transcript: Interview with Richard Kingsberry
Transcript: Interview with Crystal Odum interview
Letter: Equal Opportunity Employment Letter
Questions to Consider:
Why did the Crown Zellerbach
Corporation recruit minority workers and provide better opportunities
for women?
Why was there resistance
to the change?
Newspaper Articles: "Girls continue strike at Camas paper bag plant"
Questions to Consider:
Why did the bag factory
employees go on strike?
Transcript: Interview with
Kathy Sinclair
Questions to Consider:
How did World War II
affect women workers at the Camas mill?
Questions to Consider:
What were the main
provisions of the Equal Pay Act?
Image:
1918 postcard from Camas
Newspaper Article: "Paper
mills will not employ union labor"
Newspaper Article:
"Paper company gives out circular letter"
Newspaper Article: "Six
girl strikers put under arrest"
Questions to Consider:
How did the Crown Willamette
Paper Company break the 1917 strike?
What was the company's
position on unions?
1935
Labor Legislation:
the National Labor Relations Act
Questions to Consider:
What does the NLRA
do? Why was it passed?
Article:
How could a strike happen here? It couldn't ... but we have it
Transcript:
Interview with Bob Cochrane
Union president's
views : "As
I write ... we are on strike"
Questions to Consider:
What issues have
caused Camas paper mill workers to strike?
What have been the
results of those strikes been?
Part
III - Change and Development
Speech:
Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1937 Bonneville Address
Questions to Consider:
What environmental and
social principles were behind Roosevelt's support of the Bonneville Dam
and hydropower?
1939
Brochure: "Fishways at Bonneville Dam"
Questions to Consider:
What made fish valuable
and worth conserving, according to the brochure: "Fishways at Bonneville
Dam"?
Minutes:
1939 meeting of tribal delegates to discuss damage to fishing sites
Legislation: Public Law 100-581,
Title IV
Report: "A Study of Impacts
to Significant Resources"
Questions to Consider:
What did the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers representatives believe about how Bonneville and other
Dams would affect Native Americans?
Newspaper Article: "Local Kraft
Pulp May Cut Imports"
1932 Newspaper Article:
"C.W.P. Co. to Appeal $5,000 Hinz Judgment"
Questions to Consider:
Why did Camas residents
support the Kraft mill despite its strong smell and air emissions?
EPA
Fact Sheet: "The Pulp and Paper Industry, the Pulping Process, and
Pollutant Releases into the Environment"
EPA Fact Sheet:
"EPA's Final Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard 'Cluster Rule'"
Questions to Consider:
What part of the pulp
and paper process releases pollutants?
Why did the EPA issue
its "cluster rules"?
Transcript:
Interview with Dean Dossett
Transcript: Interview with
Jean Moszeter
Document: United Camas Associations
of Neighborhoods Evolving a Vision for Camas 2001 -- 2015
Questions to Consider:
How has development changed
Camas physically and socially?
Washington State University Vancouver student papers
Early History of Camas
Washougal's Woolen Mill
Paper Mill History
Women at the Camas Mill
1917 Strike
Bonneville Dam
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