Introduction:  YHS annuals provide a visual view of Yelm in the sixties.  Excuse the quality of the photos.

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PART V – CONFRONTATIONS AT FRANK’S LANDING & THE PUYALLUP RIVER
This part of the story has to do with the fishing rights struggle which took place at Frank’s Landing on the Nisqually River. This includes the story of how the lands of the Nisqually people were lost during World War I. The story also demonstrates [...]

Stereotypes in the Media

An article about the Shaker Church near Olympia:
Olympian Helps Indian Men of the Shaker Church Daily Olympian 2-27-17
An Indian has no imagination and therefore must have noise and realities to move his spirit, according to Milton Giles, of this city, the only white member of the Shaker faith in the state of [...]

Headlines from the Fishing Rights Conflict
It is Indians vs U.S. Army Again
But this time the red man’s shots are legal documents, fired by a Seattle Attorney The Nisqually Indians and the Army are feuding again. There have been a skirmishes along the boundary between Fort Lewis and the Nisqually Reservation. -Seattle Times 4-13-58
Indians Crowd Longhouse, [...]

Indians Seeing Red Over River Arrests
Daily Olympian
January 11, 1962
by J.C. Walker
A new installment in the week’s collection of Thurston County Indian incidents Thursday began to take on the hue of a Hollywood melodrama. One more Indian was arrested Wednesday, making it a full half-dozen charged since the Game Department began its round of fish [...]

Yelm throughout the 1960’s

Articles
A Resource Divided – A review of the fishing rights issue as part of the Seattle Times Centennial Project
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/centennial/november/resource.html

Reporting on the Indians: Indian Agents Comment

Introduction: The following selections were written by non-Indians who were reporting on the conditions found among the Native Americans of the South Puget Sound area after the establishment of the reservations [...]

When the Indians harp that they should be allowed to fish in their “ancient and accustomed ways,” they are on shaky grounds for argument. The catch in that phrase, incorporated in old treaties, is the virtual impossibility of an Indian complying with the “ancient” requirements. He probably is going to drive to the fishing spot, [...]

More about Indians’ rights and treaties. The Indians say the white man’s word and their treaties are not worth the paper they are written on. All the white man wants to do is to take everything away from the Indians and give them nothing but abuse in return. The white man promised the Indians that [...]