Sandpoint Documents Archive

Kalispel Indians

• Description of gathering and hunting practices

• Adrian Hoecken's letter to Peter de Smet

• Our Father in Salish

• Hell Gate Treaty

• Colville Index newspaper article regarding dispute between settlers and Kalispel, 1885

• How did Kalispel Indians use the resources surrounding them for sustenance?
  How did the lives of native people change with the arrival of missionaries and settlers?
  In what ways did native practices conflict with the lifeways of settlers?

Early Resistance to Albeni Falls Dam

• Letter to the citizens of Bonner County from Senator Compton White

• 1927 Idaho law prohibiting the diversion of water to Washington State

• Why did Sandpoint residents resist the first Albeni Falls Dam proposal?
  Did the reasons for resistance change over the years? In what ways?

Farragut Naval Training Station

• "Farragut Facts," a page taken from a training manual

Opposition to the Second Proposal for a Dam at Albeni Falls

• "Sandpoint Will Resist Building Dam at Albeni," Sandpoint Bulletin, 20 May 1943

• "Dam Construction Blocked, Belief of Idaho People," Sandpoint Bulletin, 24 June 1943

• Testimony before House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation, 28 August 1943

• What strategies did residents use to oppose the proposed dam at Albeni Falls?
  Why did the federal government want to build a dam at this site?

Dam Building

• Excerpt from "Albeni Falls Project: Discussion of Local Problems," Corps of Engineers, Seattle District, Seattle, Washington, October, 1950

Logging in North Idaho

• SS Russler tows one million board feet of saw logs in one boom on Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho, in 1940

• William Morris describes his experiences in a national forest, 1909

Opposition of Bonner County Residents

• Statement by the women of Bonner County before a congressional subcommittee

• Editorial from Sandpoint Bulletin, 30 November 1950

• Letter to Magnus Overland from Army Corps of Engineers regarding his land that will be flooded by Albeni Falls Dam

• On what terms did the women of Bonner County oppose the dam?

Fishing in North Idaho

• Graph of Kokanee Decline in Lake Pend Oreille

Human Rights

• Response from Clergy to anti-Semitism

• How have Sandpoint residents responded to racism and anti-semitism within their community?

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