A collection connecting Western history, Nez Perce accounts, and Wallowa County.
Joseph and the surrounding valley, with Wallowa Lake and the mountains beyond. Community context for this record.
Sam Beebe · 2007-07-08 · CC BY 2.0 · Image & source ↗The library provides routes into a Wallowa County history collection, multimedia Nez Perce archives, and audio and visual material. It is located at the Josephy Center.
Its published recordings include local presentations and interviews. Recordings linked by this atlas remain with their original host unless separate permission to republish is obtained.
“our Wallowa Country is a living history museum threaded to past and future in an increasingly seamless cloth.”
Treaties, fisheries work, family visits, and a plan that looks a century ahead: Indigenous life changes the county’s story when it is understood as continuing authority and homecoming, as well as history.
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Fishtrap began with a question about whose West was being represented. A library, a Grange hall and a few drawers of saved papers tell related stories about making room for the county to describe itself.
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Chinese miners’ efforts to obtain justice, a petition to restrict return, and the people who kept local papers show that an archive is not a neutral pile of facts. Its silences have histories too.
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