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From: S.E.
Date: 5/11/2002
Time: 10:04:13 AM
Remote Name: 204.245.250.147
Ther are "ways" into The Boston Globe Archives, kinda thru the back door. If you use the search engine Google (doesn't everybody?) you can pick on the Goggle Cache icon, and Google will show you the page that it stored while crawling the Web. Maybe a page that you cannot get to without a subscription. You won't get images, but you will get the complete text, for sure.
Now, my thoughts on the Quinault Reservation, I, like many white folks, did not know until recently, that based on percentages allotted, non-Quinaults own the highest percentage of the Reservation. When the land there was divided up, there were many tribes involved. Each person of Indian blood was given 80 acres each. Every since that original time, the Quinaults have been trying every avenue to regain the land. Thru the court system, and by outright purchase, they have methodically increased their holdings. I have heard a rumor (not proven) of a family member (a Chinook) that recently sold his allotment back to the Quinaults for an astounding 1.2 million dollars. I know, for instance, that some, if not all, of the Reservation was logged off at one time. I suppose that 80 acres of prime second growth timber would be worth 1.2 million dollars on todays' market. I just cannot understand how, if you are an alottee, the U.S. government can say that you are not a "real" Indian, just because you happen to be a Chinook. (?)
In history, the Chinook were said to have "raided" the Quinault areas and physically took Quinault slaves back to the Chinook country. It is also said that, although there were many marriages of Chinook women to non-tribal men for political purposes, there were no recorded marriages to ANY Quinaults. The Quinaults were never invited to any Chinook gatherings or "potlatches", although many up-river Indian tribes were invited. The Quinault Tribe has not forgotten any of this. To many people (non-Indians) this is all ancient history, but in the reality of Lower Columbia River history, it is but an eye-blink in time. This is why the bad blood is still there.
S.E.