I am looking for a contact at the Warm Springs Reservation Museum in
Warm Springs, OR.

I've been working on an article about a Women's Christian Temperance
Union banner from the Warm Springs Reservation. Although I cannot be
certain whether the banner was created by Native American women or by
white missionaries, the iconography on the banner is an interesting
combination of typical WCTU imagry and iconography familiar to Pacific
Northwest Indian designs. The beadwork itself is of a style very
familiar among Northwest peoples.

The date of the banner is unclear, but it is most likely from the late
19th or early 20th century.  It has been on display at the National
Museum of American History since 1990, in the exhibit, "From Parlor to
Politics:  Women and Reform in America, 1890-1925."

I'm interested in learning more about the presence of the WCTU on the
reservation and, more specifically, about the community's involvement
with or resistance to them. I would especially like to include
community members' voices in my interpretation of the banner, if
possible.

If anyone on the list works at Warm Springs or can direct me to
someone at the museum, please email me off the list.

Thank you!
Denise D. Meringolo
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