Chemawa Indian School Boys at Drill
Title
Chemawa Indian School Boys at Drill
Description
A group portrait of the boys enrolled at Chemawa Indian School, very soon after the school relocated there from Forest Grove in 1885. The boys stand at attention, demonstrating a military drill for the camera. The student standing in front of the others may have been leading the drill. One student holds the United States flag aloft on the right. A woman stands in the doorway of the white building on the left. Trees, which had not yet been cleared from the campus, lie behind a fenced area in the background. The boys in this portrait were taken to the school from tribes across the Pacific Northwest as part of a government plan to force them to assimilate into white culture. For another photograph taken on the same day, see image WCMss261_001_176.
Subject
Off-reservation boarding schools
Native American Studies
Chemawa Indian School
Place
Salem, Oregon
Identifier
WCMss261_001_157
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-OKLR/1.0/
Source
Native American Collection, 1842-1955 (WCMss.261), Whitman College and Northwest Archives, Walla Walla, WA.
Type
Still Image