Books, Reports, Dissertations, and Theses
Annual Report of the Park Board, Portland, Oregon, 1903: With
the Report os Messrs. Olmsted Bros., Landscape Architects, Outlining
a System of Parkways, Boulevards and Parks for the City of Portland.
This report outlines the desirability of many of
Portland's city parks and places that ultimately have become part
of the Metro Greenspaces program. Available through Portland Parks
and Recreation Department.
Chronicle of St. Johns Shipyards. Portland, Oregon: Grant
Smith-Porter Ship Company, 1918.
Final
report, Japanese evacuation from the West coast, 1942. Washington
D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943.
Indian
Claims Commission, Northwest Coast and Plateau Tribes [Index].
New York: Clearwater Pub. Co., 1980.
Abbott, Carl. Portland: Planning, Politics, and Growth in a Twentieth-Century
City. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.
Highlights the politics and planning of urbanization
in the city of Portland.
Barber, Lawrence. Columbia Slough. Portland, Oregon: Columbia
Slough Development Corporation, 1977.
Beckham, Stephen Dow. Chinook Indian Tribe: Petition for Federal
Acknowledgment. Lake Oswego, Or.: USA Research, 1987.
Boas, Franz. Chinook Texts. Washington: GPO, 1894.
Chinook stories.
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin
Co., 1962.
A landmark book of the twentieth century -- awakened
American society to the dangers posed by poisoning the earth with
chemicals.
City of Portland. Bureau of Environmental Services. .Choices for
the Slough Handbook. Portland, Oregon: The Bureau, 1989.
_____. Columbia Slough Planning Study, Background Report.
Portland, Oregon: The Bureau, 1989.
_____. Columbia Slough sediment remedial investigation/feasibility
study. Portland, Oregon: The Bureau, 1995.
_____. Focused Remedial Investigation Report for Buffalo Slough
and Reference Sites Columbia Slough Sediment RI/FS. Portland,
Oregon: The Bureau, 1996.
_____. St. Johns Landfill End Use Plan. Portland, Oregon:
The Bureau, 1987.
_____. Water Body Assessment: pollutant sources and controls,
Columbia Slough TMDL development. Portland, Oregon: The Bureau,
1995
_____. Bureau of Planning. Adopted Albina Community Plan.
October 1993.
_____. Cultural Resources Protection for the Columbia South Shore:
recommended draft. Portland, Oregon: Bureau of Planning, 1995.
_____. Portland's Albina Community: The History of Portland's
African American Community (1805 to the Present). Portland: Bureau
of Planning, February 1993.
Outlines African American history in the city of Portland,
including Jim Crow laws, the labor movement, Vanport City, and legislative
progress. Includes maps and tables and a bibliography.
_____. St. Johns Area: a plan for the development of a north Portland
community: a unit of the Portland Comprehensive development plan.
Portland, Oregon: The Bureau, 1959.
Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission. Wana Chinook Tymoo.
Summer 1991 - present.
A publication of CRITFC highlighting native issues,
especially those related to Indian fishing rights.
Columbia Slough Environmental Improvement Task Force. A Plan for
the North Portland Peninsula. Portland, OR: The Task Force, 1972.
Dornbusch, David M. and Company. Columbia Slough navigation project:
economic feasibility study. Portland, Oregon: The District, 1977.
Ellis, David. Columbia Slough/St. Johns Landfill Cultural Resources
Survey. Portland, Oregon: Archaeological Investigations Northwest,
1998.
Hamilton, James Thompson. Vanport: an experimental approach to
a school-community situation. June 1950.
Houck, Michael and Mary Jane Cody. Wild in the City: A Guide to
Portland's Natural Areas. Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical
Society Press, 2000.
Jacobs, Melville. Texts in Chinook Jargon. Seattle, Wash:
University of Washington, 1936.
Jerrick, Nancy. The Lower Columbia River Estuary Program Comprehensive
Conservation and Management Plan. Vol. 1. Portland, Oregon: The
Lower Columbia River Estuary Program, June 1999.
Profiles physical geography, social and cultural heritage,
land use and population of Oregon and Washington, environment, economy,
aesthetic and recreational resources of the Lower Columbia River estuary,
which includes the Columbia Slough watershed. In addition to an action
plan and implementation strategies for the Estuary program, includes
sections on public policy, priority issues, impacts of human activity
and growth, habitat loss and modification, conventional pollutants,
toxic contaminants, institutional constraints, and public awareness
and stewardship.
Jessett, Thomas E., ed. Reports and Letters of Herbert Beaver,
1836-1838, Chaplain to the Hudson's Bay Company and Missionary to
the Indians at Fort Vancouver. Portland, Oregon: Champoeg Press,
1959.
Most of the letters and reports contained in this book
focus on the conflict between Herbert Beaver and John McLoughlin.
Beaver provides some insight into Chinookan practices as well as Anglo
attitudes.
Jones, Roy F. Wappato Indians of the Lower Columbia River Valley.
Roy Franklin Jones, 1972.
Covers a 75 mile stretch of the river, but centers
on Sauvie's Island. Not an academic work, but includes primary sources
and an arcaeological section with datea and illustrations from Screenings,
the publication of the Oregon Archaeological Society.
Kane, Paul. The Chinook Indians. Toronto, 1857.
Krenzke, Theodore C. Evidence for Proposed Finding Against Federal
Acknowledgment of the Tchinouk Indians of Oregon. Washington,
DC: Federal Acknowledgement Project, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1985.
Maben, Manly. Vanport. Portland, OR: OHS Press, 1987.
A history of the city of Vanport, public housing in
Portland, and the Vanport Flood. Based on Maben's Portland State University
MA thesis.
MacColl, E. Kimbark. The Shaping of a City: Business and Politics
in Portland, Oregon 1885 to 1915. Portland, Oregon: The Georgian
Press Company, 1976.
A political and social history of Portland, 1885 to
1915. Includes images, maps, and primary documents.
MacLagan, Elizabeth. A Peculiar Paradise: a History of Blacks
in Oregon, 1788-1940. Portland, Oregon: The Georgian Press, 1980.
Explains discriminatory practices in Oregon from the
first appearance of African Americans in Oregon to the original slave
debates and exclusion laws through attempts to pass civil rights legislation.
Includes a bibliography, appendix and notes, and an epilogue describing
the period after 1940.
Metropolitan Regional Services. Metropolitan Greenspaces: Master
Plan. Portland, Oregon: Metro, 1992.
_____. Metropolitan Greenspaces: Master Plan Summary. Portland,
Oregon: Metro, 1992.
_____. Growth Management Services Department. "Policy Analysis
and Scientific Literature Review For Title 3 of the Urban Growth Management
Functional Plan: Water Quality and Floodplain Management Conservation.
Portland, Oregon: Metro Regional Services, 1997.
Introduces the nature of water resource problems in
the Portland Metro region, their background, policy and legal considerations,
flood area management, water quality protection, and erosion and sediment
control. Includes two appendices -- Urban Growth Management Functional
Plan Title 3 and DEQ (D) LIst for the Metro Region.
_____. "Protecting Our Region's Rivers, Floodplains and Wetlands:
An Introduction to regional water quality and floodplain issues and
policies." Portland, Oregon: Metro Regional Services, 1998.
Provides an overview of Metro functions in conserving
and protecting the Portland floodplain, river systems, and wetlands.
_____. Streamside CPR: Development of measures to conserve, protect
and restore riparian corridors in the Metro region/discussion draft.
December 1999.
Miller, Jr., Tyler G. Living in the Environment: An Introduction
to Environmental Science. Sixth Edition. Belmont, California:
Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1990.
Introduces students to key concepts and principles
of environmental science.
Mitchell Associates Planning. Forty Mile Loop Recreation System:
Columbia Slough Section. Portland, Oregon, 1978.
Mitchoff, Alta. History of the Kenton Neighborhood. Portland,
Oregon: Kenton Neighborhood Association, 1997.
A local history including the history of Portland and
the Kenton Neighborhood. Includes oral history excerpts.
McChesney, et. al. The Rolls of Certain Indian Tribes in Washington
and Oregon. Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1969.
Contains the results, including affidavits, of McChesney's
1905 survey of the Lower Chinook, Clatsop, Tillamook, and Cathlamet
Indians in addition to other primary documents and a photo section.
Portland City Club Bulletin. "The Negro in Portland, 1945."
Vol. 26, 12. Portland, Oregon, July 20, 1948.
A social and demographic report of African Americans
in the city of Portland and in the United States completed for the
Board of Governors of the Portland City Club. Very clear about discriminatory
practices and the need for integration.
Portland City Club Bulletin. "The Negro in Portland: A Progress
Report, 1945-1957." Vol. 37, 46. April, 1957.
Portland Development Commission. St. Johns Riverfront urban renewal
plan. Portland, Oregon: The Commission, 1979.
Illustrated, with maps.
Portland Public Schools. Vanport City, "6000 kids from 46
states." Portland, Oregon: Portland Public Schools, 1946.
Ray, Verne Frederick. Lower Chinook Ethnographic Notes. Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 1938.
Richmond, Henry R. III. The History of the Portland District Corps
of Engineers, 1871-1969. Portland, Oregon: The District, March
1970.
Ross, Alexander. Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon
or Columbia River. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.
First hand account of Chinookan peoples by fur trader
and explorer Alexander Ross.
Rubin, Rick. Naked Against the Rain: the People of the Lower
Columbia River, 1770-1830. Portland, Or.: Far Shore Press, 1999.
Not academic, but includes a wide range of primary
source materials.
Ruby, Robert, M.D., and John Brown. fwd. Reverend Stephen A. Meriwether.
Intro. Deward E. Walker, Jr. The Chinook Indians: Traders of the
Lower Columbia River. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976.
A history of the Chinook Indians from contact through
the treaty era. Includes notes, bibliography, images, and index.
Souza, Bonnie Jean. Justice or Ecocide: The Challenge Facing the
Environmental Movement and Opportunities for Organizing in the Pacific
Northwest. M.A. Thesis, University of Oregon, 1992.
St. Johns Heritage Association. St. Johns Heritage. Vols.
1-5. Portland, Oregon: The Association.
_____. Spanning the Decades: St. Johns Bridge Diamond Jubilee.
Portland, Oregon: The Association, 1991.
Stroud, Ellen. "A Slough of Troubles: An Environmental and Social
History of the Columbia Slough." M.A. Thesis, University of Oregon,
1995.
Highlights the environmental degradation of the Lower
Columbia Slough. Touches on issues of social justice.
Sturtevant, William C. and Wayne P. Suttles, eds. Handbook of
North American Indians. Vol. 7. Northwest Coast. Washington, D.C.:
Smithsonian Institution, 1990.
Taylor, Quintard. The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's
Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era. Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 1994.
Provides comparison in African American history and
public housing between the states of Oregon and Washington.
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, LL.D. Original Journals of the Lewis And
Clark Expedition, 1804-1806. Vols. 3 and 4. New York: Antiquarian
Press, 1959.
These volumes chronicle Lewis and Clark's journey down
the Columbia in 1805, their winter at Fort Clatsop, and their journey
up the Columbia to the Snake River.
United States. Army Corps of Engineers. Portland District. Office
of the District Engineer. Columbia River Flood: 1948.
Portland, Oregon: The District.
_____. Columbia Slough, Oregon, reconnaissance report, general
investigation. Portland, Oregon: The District, 1993.
_____. Supplemental feasibility report on Columbia Slough navigation
project, Oregon. Portland, Oregon: The District, 1977.
_____. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940
Salem (Indians of Grand Ronde and Siletz Reservations and Non-Reservation
Indians. Washington, D.C. : The Bureau, 1926, 1939.
_____.
Office of Indian Affairs. Oregon Superintendency. Report of Anson
Dart, Superintendent, to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs concerning
treaties with the Chinook and other Indian Tribes, 1851, Nov. 7.
Wilkes, Charles, U.S.N. Columbia River to the Sacramento. Oakland:
Biobooks, 1958.
An edited version of Wilkes' survey of the Columbia
and Sacramento. Pages 3-38 focus on the Columbia region, particularly
Chinookan culture.
Willingham, William F. Army Engineers and the Development of Oregon:
A History of the Portland District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Portland, Oregon: The District, 1983.
Articles
Kilbourn, Charlotte and Margaret Lantis. "Elements
of Tenant Instability in a War Housing Project." American
Sociological Review 11 (February 1946): 57-66.
Available in the Columbia Slough documents archive.
Mearns, Anna. "Pollution Patrol." Ranger
Rick Magazine. National Wildlife Federation. 28, 3 (March 1994):
10-15.
Monteverde, Gay. "Some History About the Portland
Area Levees (Dikes): Holding Back the Waters -- The U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers & Flood Control Along the Lower Columbia." Freshwater
News. April, 1997.
A history of flood control in the Portland urban drainage
districts from a Corps of Engineers standpoint.
Pancoast, Diane. "Blacks in Oregon (1940-1950)"
in Blacks in Oregon: a statistical and historical report. ed.
Little, William A., Ph.D. and Weiss, James E., Ph.D. Portland, Oregon:
Black Studies Center and the Center for Population Research and Census,
Portland State University, 1978.
Includes historical and demographic information about
African Americans in Portland between 1940 and 1950.
Stroud, Ellen. "Troubled Waters in Ecotopia: Environmental
Racism in Portland, Oregon." Radical History Review. 74
(Spring, 1999).
Taylor, Quintard. "Slaves and Free Men: Blacks
in the Oregon Country, 1840-1860." Oregon Historical Quarterly
83, 2 (Summer, 1982): 153-170.
Chronicles settlement differences in the territories
of Washington and Oregon due to Oregon's exclusionary laws.
Walters, Judy. "The Vanport Flood." Clark
County History 31 (1990): 71-77.
A brief history of post-war Vanport and the flood,
including snippets of interviews with Vancouver residents.