List of Indian Shaker Church buildings in Washington
This is a list of Indian Shaker Church buildings in Washington state. Indian Shaker Church building architecture is unique to the Pacific Northwest, with unadorned, unpainted rectangular woooden structure.[1]
The list is derived from Washington Secretary of State archives unless noted.[2]
- Malott
- Muckleshoot Indian Reservation—(Auburn)[3]
- Mud Bay — the first Shaker Church
- Neah Bay
- Nespelem
- Nisqually State Park[4]
- Nooksack
- Oakville
- Queets
- Skokomish; new church house built 1962[5]
- Swinomish
- Taholah
- Tulalip Indian Reservation—(Marysville): Indian Shaker Church (Marysville, Washington)
- Wapato
- White Swan — Independent Shaker Church of White Swan[6]
- Yakima Indian Reservation—Satus
Mud Bay church
The first Shaker Indian church (47°03′38″N 123°01′01″W / 47.0606°N 123.0170°W), also called the "mother church", was built near Olympia on a shoulder of the Black Hills above Mud Bay,[7] at the southern end of Eld Inlet, an arm of Puget Sound.[8][9][10][11] It was near the homes of Louis "Mud Bay Louie" Yowaluch (aka Mud Bay Louis) and his brother Sam "Mud Bay Sam" Yowaluch, co-founders of the church,[12] first and second "headman"s respectively. Mud Bay Sam was the first Bishop (church leader) after incorporation of Shaker Indian Church in 1910.[8]
The original church was oriented in an east-west direction, in a manner that would set the pattern for subsequent church architecture.[13] The earliest several churches were about 18-by-24-foot (5.5 m × 7.3 m) plain wooden buildings with 10-foot (3.0 m) shingle roofs, stout wooden doors and floors.[14] The Mud Bay church was rebuilt in 1910.[13]
References
- ↑ Segal Chiat 1997, p. 425.
- ↑ SOS 1996.
- ↑ Flewelling 2002.
- ↑ Nisqually Tribe 2014.
- ↑ Ruby & Brown 1996, pp. 103 and 132.
- ↑ Walker & Schuster 1998, p. 510.
- ↑ Steele 1957, p. 11.
- 1 2 SOS 1996, p. 3.
- ↑ Wilkinson 2012, p. 253.
- ↑ Ruby & Brown 1996, p. 117.
- ↑ Kirk 1995, p. 354.
- ↑ Mooney 1896, pp. 754 and 758.
- 1 2 Potter 1976.
- ↑ Evening Post 1896, p. 8.
- Sources
- "Washington churches", INDIAN SHAKER CHURCH OF WASHINGTON, RECORDS (PDF), Washington Secretary of State, c. 1996, pp. 16–17, Ms 29
- Flewelling, Stan (October 2002), "Auburn-area Churches", White River Journal (White River Valley Museum)
- Wilkinson, Charles (2012), The People Are Dancing Again: The History of the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon, University of Washington Press, p. 253, ISBN 9780295802015
- Ruby, Robert H.; Brown, John Arthur (1996), John Slocum and the Indian Shaker Church, University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN 9780806128658
- Kirk, Ruth; Carmela Alexander (1995), Exploring Washington's past : a road guide to history (Rev. ed.), Seattle: University of Washington Press, ISBN 0295974435 Cite uses deprecated parameter
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(help) - Mooney, James (1896), "The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890", Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892–1893, U.S. Government Printing Office
- Walker, Deward E. Jr; Schuster, Helen H. (1998), "Religious Movements", in Sturtevant, William C., Walker, Deward E., Jr., Handbook of North American Indians, V. 12, Plateau, Smithsonian Institution/United States Government Printing Office, pp. 499–514, ISBN 0-16-049514-8
- Segal Chiat, Marilyn Joyce (1997), America's Religious Architecture: Sacred Places for Every Community, Wiley, ISBN 9780471145028
- "Indian Shakers" (PDF), New York Evening Post, July 29, 1896 – via Fultonhistory.com
- Steele, E.N. (1957), The rise and decline of the Olympia oyster, Elma, Washington: Fulco Publications, doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6544
- Potter, Elizabeth Walton (January 7, 1976), National Register of Historic Places nomination form: Indian Shaker Church in Marysville (PDF), U.S. National Park Service
- Park request for proposal, Nisqually Tribe, May 22, 2014
External links
- Media related to Indian Shaker Church buildings at Wikimedia Commons