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A History of Oregon, 1792-1849

Note 7 — Chapter XXX

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This statement about Rev. Mr. Blanchet and associates, “their enterprise in erecting mills end other public Works,” shows how easy it was for the agent to belittle his own countrymen’s labors, and attribute to others what they never attempted to do, and in the next paragraph say they “are doing but little for the Indians;” while the truth is, and was at the time, that Mr. Lee and his mission were the only persons in the Wallamet Valley doing any thing to improve the condition of the Indians, of which their Indian school, now Wallamet University, is a permanent monument, which Dr. White ignores in this report.

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