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  Tuesday  March 28  2006    11: 16 PM

photography

Picturing the Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla Tribes


Major Lee Moorhouse of Pendleton, Oregon was an Indian Agent for the Umatilla Indian Reservation and a photographer. From 1888 to 1916 he produced over 9,000 images which document urban, rural, and Native American life in the Columbia Basin, and particularly Umatilla County, Oregon.


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