A. Harvey Wright Collection on Tribal Termination in Oregon, 1952-1964
Scope and Contents note
The collection consists of correspondence, other documents and newspaper clippings related to the implementation of federal termination of tribal recognition for the Klamath Tribes in the 1950s. Termination-related educational training programs for the Klamath Tribes served as a pilot program for similar activities elsewhere. A significant set of documents in this collection describes related educational programs implemented with the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Rhonde Reservation in Oregon. The scrapbook primarily includes newspaper clippings from the 1950s covering termination of federal recognition of the Klamath Tribes sovereign nation status. Some photographs are included.
Dates
- 1952-1964
Creator
- Wright, A. Harvey (Person)
Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open for research use.
Conditions Governing Use note
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Biographical Note
Albert Harvey Wright was born in Kansas on November 19, 1903. He graduated from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon in 1930 with a degree in Education. He served in the US Army, including in WWII, eventually attaining the rank of Colonel. His wife was Noris Winona Irving (1910 – 2001). They had one child, Charles Albert Jackson Wright (1942 – 2000).
A. Harvey Wright served as director of Indian education and training programs and as director of transportation for the Oregon Department of Education in the 1950s and 1960s. He was very involved in implementing federal education and training programs for Indians of Oregon. He authored several manuals on school transportation as well as other documents. He died on December 15, 1994 in Salem, Oregon.
Extent
1 box and 1 scrapbook
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
As director of Indian education and training programs for the Oregon Department of Education in the 1950s and 1960s, A. Harvey Wright was very involved in implementing federal education and training programs, including preparations for federal termination of tribal status for several Indian tribes in Oregon. The collection consists of correspondence and documents related to federal termination of tribal recognition for the Klamath Tribes and other Oregon tribes in the 1950s.
Arrangement note
Location note
Shaw Historical Library at Oregon Institute of Technology
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
This collection was donated by Noris Winona Irving Wright, widow of A. Harvey Wright.
General Physical Description note
- Indian termination policy -- Oregon
- Indians of North America -- Oregon -- Warm Springs Indian Reservation -- Government relations
- Klamath Indian Reservation (Or.)
- Klamath Indian Tribe of Oregon
- Klamath Indians -- Government relations
- Siletz Indians -- Government relations
- Warm Springs Indian Reservation (Or.)
- Wright, A. Harvey--Archives
- scrapbooks
Creator
- Wright, A. Harvey (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the A. Harvey Wright Collection on Tribal Termination in Oregon 1952-1964
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Anne Hiller Clark
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in: English English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Repository Details
Part of the Oregon Institute of Technology Libraries, Shaw Historical Library Repository