Chemawa Prints Project Day 12

I finished titling the fifth box then started on the sixth (CH 1421-1760). Many of the prints were mislabeled in the metadata (CH 1320-1340). I met with Sara Amato and Rebecca Dobkins today to check in on my progress. I have started a Google Doc to record my ideas for potential projects with the prints.

The following are more findings from my time with the Charles E. Larsen Collection yesterday. 

I did not find anything directly related to Daniel Boone, the student Marsha Smalls is interested in, but I did deduce a few things. Unfortunately, there is actually very little information about the students themselves in the collection. The only notable or consistent places where students are named is in lists of graduating classes and in rosters for sports teams. In the graduation lists are the name, tribe, blood quantum, age at graduation, and home state of the students. The team rosters also had game scores and specific information about many, many games. I did not look to see which years they spanned. 

The first Yakima student to graduate from Chemawa was in the Class of 1907. Her name was Apis Goudy. A list of all students who attended Chemawa would have been in Book 4 of Larsen's original materials, but Willamette only received the first page of this book. The book may have been destroyed. Charles E. Larsen, the namesake of the collection, started attending Chemawa on June 26, 1893, very shortly after the death of Daniel Boone. There were a few students in later years with the last name Boothe, but not Boone.

CH 1207 is labeled with the names Loulin and Ernest Brewer. I found the name Brewer multiple times in the Collection, along with Loulin's name. She was a member of the Class of 1909. She is Puyallup. Her blood quantum is labled as 2/4. She graduated at the age of 16. Her state of residence is listed as Washington. There are many other Brewers who graduated from Chemawa: Sarah, Katie, Ella, Ruth H., and Gertrude. There was an article by a woman with the last name of Brewer. 

I have asked whether or not Chemawa students participated in student government, and I found proof that they did. 

1421-1485/3220