First Inhabitants
- Language Group Chart
- Lewis & Clark Descriptions– October 16, 1805, of the confluence of the Snake and Columbia Rivers, October 17, 1805 – description of the Sokulk (Wanapum) Indians, October 18, 1805 – leaving the Wanapum
- Central Plateau Epidemic history
Cultures Clash
- Yakima Treaty of 1855
- Correspondence of Chief Moses
- Executive orders creating and withdrawing the Columbia Reservation
- Department of Interior Relinquishment of Columbia Reservation
Neppel: Early Struggles with Water
- 1902 Reclamation Act
- Grant County Realty Company Ad
- Incorporation papers for the town of Moses Lake
- Early Moses Lake City Council meeting minutes
Grand Coulee Dam
- Rufus Woods
- Acquisition of Indian Lands, Relocation of Indian Cemeteries
- Reactions to inundation
- Newspaper clippings describe the inundation of communities
- Report, Committee on Natural Resources, 1994 Grand Coulee Dam Settlement Act
- The fate of the Pacific Northwest Salmon (U.S. Commissioner of Fisheries Report, the Mitchell Act, “The Great Salmon Mystery”)
The Columbia Basin Project: Promise and Reality
- Remina Jorgensen describes challenges of irrigated farming
- 1935 Rivers and Harbors Act – authorizing construction of Grand Coulee Dam
- 1936 Rural Electrification Act – providing electricity in rural communities
- 1937 Anti-Speculation Act – preventing land speculation at Grand Coulee Dam
- Reclamation Project Act of 1939 – guidelines for the “Planned Promised Land.”
- Don Goodwin talks about the closure of the U & I Sugar Refinery
Building Community: Japanese Americans
- Executive Order 9066 – Japanese Internment
- Larson Air Force Base – Guide and Directory/Closure
- The Bracero Program – Public Law 45, April 29, 1943
- Joe Tokunaga describes internment at Minidoka and coming to Moses Lake
- Lillian Tokunaga describes living in Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II
- Harry Yamamoto, Jr. describes farming in Moses Lake after 1943
- Frank Koba discusses Moses Lake after 1943
