If you have time to read only one book about Tulalip, it should be Harriette Shelton Dover’s autobiography, Tulalip, From My Heart: An Autobiographical Account of a Reservation Community. This book is the closest thing we have to a history of the Tulalip Tribes. Thanks to Darleen Fitzpatrick for working with Harriette to bring Harriette’s words to a print format.
Here is a list of books that are Tulalip-related, in chronological order. This isn’t a comprehensive list, but you may find something of interest here.
1857 – Method for Learning the Language of the Snohomish.
By Father Eugene Casimir Chirouse; a manuscript at the University of California at Berkeley Libraries.
Father Chirouse prepared this document for the use of missionaries to the Indians. Includes grammar rules, some vocabulary, and prayers.
1879 – Prayer Book and Catechism in the Snohomish Language.
By. J.B. Boulet. Tulalip Mission Press. 32 pages.
1899 – Some Medical Customs, Ideas, Beliefs and Practices of the Snohomish Indians of Puget Sound.
By Charles M. Buchanan. St. Louis Courier of Medicine. Vol. XXI, pp. 277-291, July-December 1899; Vol. XXI, pp. 355-370, November 1899.
1914 – Indian Totem Legends of the North-west Coast County.
By William Shelton. Chilocco, Oklahoma : Indian Agricultural School. 17 p.
1923 – The Story of the Totem Pole or Indian Legends, as Handed Down from Generation to Generation.
By William Shelton. Everett, WA : Kane & Harcus, 80 p.
1930 – The Indians of Puget Sound.
By Hermann Haeberlin and Erna Gunther.
Published as vol. 4, no. 1, of the University of Washington Publications in Anthropology. 83 p.
1932 – Eugene Casimir Chirouse O.M.I., and the Indians of Washington.
By Nellie Sullivan (Sister Mary Louise O.P.). University of Washington M.A. thesis. 55p.
1953 – A Historical and Ethnological Study of the Snohomish Indian People.
By Colin Ellidge Tweddell, August 1953; published in Coast Salish and Western Washington Indians Vol. II. New York : Garland Publishing, pp. 475-694.
1977 – Catalog of Tulalip Photographs.
By Lita Sheldon. Tulalip Tribes. Updated in 2013. 137 p.
|1977 – The Continuation of Upper Class Snohomish Coast Salish Attitudes and Deportment as Seen Through the Life History of a Snohomish Coast Salish woman (Harriette Shelton Dover).
By Lawrence David Rygg. Western Washington University M.A. Thesis. 399 pages. 1977.
1979 – An Ethnohistorical Report Regarding the Usual and Accustomed Fishing Grounds of The Tulalip Tribes (July 1979 – 100 p.).
By Tim Pembroke. Prepared for the Tulalip Tribes Fisheries Dept. 100 p. July 1979.
The cover for this report has the title “History and Culture of the Tulalip Tribes” which is more of a description than a title.
1979 – An Ethnohistorical Report Regarding the Usual and Accustomed Fishing Grounds of The Tulalip Tribes (November 1979 – 121 p.).
By Tim Pembroke. Prepared for the Tulalip Tribes Fisheries Dept. 121 p. November 1979.
1981 – Inventory of Native American Religious Use, Practices, Localities and Resources: Study Area on the Mount Baker – Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington State.
By Astrida Onat, Jan L. Hollenbeck, Susan Kent. Seattle WA : Institute of Cooperative Research. 393 p.
1981 – An Ethnohistorical Report Showing the Presence of the Snohomish and Snoqualmie Indians Prior to 1855, Ancestors to the Tulalip Tribes.
By Timothy Pembroke. Tulalip Tribes. 78 p.
1983 – Seahb Siwash.
By Leon L. Stock. Great Neck, NY : Todd & Honeywell. 329 p.
A novel by former Marysville Globe editor Leon Stock about the interaction between Indians and whites in the nineteenth century.
1989 – The Mary Koch Collection of Information on Tulalip.
By Lita Sheldon. Tulalip Tribes.
Photocopies of articles, newspaper clippings and photos from Mary Koch, Marysville historian.
1989 – Winds of Change: Women in Northwest Commercial Fishing.
By Charlene J. Allison, Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Mary A. Porter. Seattle : University of Washington Press. 203 p.
Includes a chapter on Marya Moses and a chapter on Linda Jones.
1991 – Tulalip Tribal 1991 Bibliography Project
By Lita Sheldon. 5 volumes.
A bibliography (one volume) and four combo-bound volumes of photocopies of newspaper clippings about Tulalip.
1992 – Between Two Worlds: Experiences at the Tulalip Indian Boarding School.
By Caroline Marr. Seattle : Upstream Productions. 8 p.
This booklet was written to accompany an eight-panel display of the Tulalip Indian School.
1993 – The Rememberer.
By Steven Dietz. Seaettle, WA : Rain City Projects. 52 p.
Script of a play about the Tulalip Indian School; based on “As My Sun Now Sets” by Joyce Simmons Cheeka as told to Werdna Phillips Finley.
1993 – Tulalip History and Culture. Supplemental Class Materials.
By Ann M. Bates, Karen Hatch Bayne. Tulalip Tribes. Marysville School District #25. Catholic Community Services of Snohomish County. 154 p.
1994 – The Book of Elders: The Life Stories of Great American Indians.
By Sandy Johnson, Dan Budnik. San Francisco : Harper San Francisco. 237 p.
Includes a chapter on Janet McCloud.
1995 – siast<inverted e>nu: Ruth Sehome Shelton: The Wisdom of a Tulalip Elder.
By Ruth Sehome Shelton, Vi Hilbert, Jay Miller, Leon Metcalf. Seattle, WA : Lushootseed Press, 92 p.
1996 – Lady Louse Lived There.
By Vi Hilbert; Janet Yoder. Seattle, WA : Lushootseed Press. 125 p.
A book based on the story of Lady Louse as told by Elizabeth Krise to linguist Thomas Hess in 1962 at Tulalip.
1999 – Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound.
By Alexander Harmon. Berkeley : University of California Press. 393 p.
2003 – Tulalip Tribes Looking Toward the Future Through the Past.
Edited by Kris Passey. Marysville, WA : Marysville Globe. 80 p.
2005 – The 2005 Directory of Tulalip Veterans.
By Sherry Guydelkon. Tulalip Tribes. 105 p. November 2004.
2009 – Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place.
By Coll Thrush, William Cronon. Seattle University of Washington Press. 376 p.
2010 – Our way = hoy yud dud.
By Stanley G. Jones Sr. Tulalip, WA : Stanley G. Jones (self-published). 156 pages.
Tulalip Tribal member Stan Jones Sr.’s autobiography.
2011 – Lifted to the Edge : The Reflections of a Tulalip Grandson.
By David Spencer. Tulalip, WA : David Spencer (self-published). 149 pages. 2011.
Tulalip Tribal member David Spencer’s autobiography.
2013 – Tulalip From My Heart: an Autobiographical Account of a Reservation Community.
By Harriette Shelton Dover. Seattle : University of Washington Press. 307 p.
2017 – Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name: The Change of Worlds for the Native People and Settlers on Puget Sound.
By David M. Buerge. Seattle : Sasquatch Books. 325 p.
2020 – My Rainbow to Keep
By Michelle Jeffreys. Virginia Beach, VA : Healing Through Wellness. 120 p.
Devastated after her daughter was murdered in the Marysville-Pilchuck High School shooting in Marysville, Washington, Michelle Jeffreys embarked on a journey to find a way to survive her loss and honor her daughter in a positive light.
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