Ten years of missionary work among the Indians at Skokomish, Washington Territory, 1874-1884Eells, Myron
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Ten years of missionary work among the Indians at Skokomish, Washington Territory, 1874-1884
Eells, Myron
Clallam Indians -- Missions; Missions -- Washington (State); Skokomish Indian Reservation (Wash.); Twana Indians -- Missions
When I arrived at Seabeck the kind ladies of the place presented my wife
with a box containing over thirty dollars’ worth of things as a
Christmas present. _Among these was a cloak._ During my absence she had
been trying to make herself one, supposing that she had cloth enough,
but when she began to cut it out to her dismay she found that with all
the twisting, turning, and piecing that she could do, there was not
cloth enough, so she had given it up and made a cloak for our little boy
out of it. She naturally felt badly, as she did not know how she should
then get one. “All these things are against me,” said Jacob, but he
found that they were all for him. Others besides Jacob have found the
same to be true.
The statistical information obtained in this census is as follows:--
In the Clallam tribe there were then 158 men, 172 women, 86 boys, and 69
girls; a total of 485 persons. Six were on or near the reservation, 10
near Seabeck, 96 at Port Gamble, 6 at Port Ludlow, 22 at Port Discovery,
12 at Port Townsend, 18 at Sequim, 86 at Jamestown, 36 at or near
Dunginess. (Those at Sequim and near Dunginess were all within six miles
of Jamestown.) Fifty-seven at Port Angeles (but a large share of them
were across the straits on the British side), 67 at Elkwa, 24 at Pyscht,
and 49 at or near Clallam Bay. There were 290 full-blooded Clallams
among them, and the rest were intermingled with 18 other tribes. Fifteen
were part white. During the year previous to October 1, 1880, there had
been 11 births and 9 deaths. Forty-one had been in school during the
previous year, 49 could read and 42 write; 135 could talk English so as
to be understood, of whom 69 were adults; 65 had no Indian name; 33 out
of 123 couples had been legally married.
They owned 10 horses, 31 cattle, 5 sheep, 97 swine, 584 domestic fowls,
and 137 guns and pistols, most of them being shot-guns. Thirty-four were
laborers in saw-mills; 22 were farmers. There were 80 fishermen, 23
laborers, 17 sealers, 15 canoe-men, 6 canoe-makers, 6 hunters, 3
policemen, 11 medicine-men, 4 medicine-women, 1 carpenter, 2
wood-choppers, 1 blacksmith, and 40 of the women were mat and basket
makers. Twenty-eight persons owned 576 acres of land with a patented
title, four more owned 475 acres by homestead, and twenty-two persons,
representing 104 persons in their families, cultivated 46 acres.
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