Series consists of photographs documenting events in various communities throughout British Columbia and Washington State. These include community photographs in Mt. Currie; the Salish Linguistic Conference in Oman, Washington State; a Robert Davidson Pole Raising; coverage of NWC artifacts at the National Museum of Copenhagen in Denmark; coverage of 1992 Nuxalk Potlatch at Bella Coola for Canadian Museum of Civilization; and photographs of a Haida bentwood box.
Between working on language and education projects, Jensen was often hired by communities to document important events, such as pole-raisings, conferences and potlatches. This series consists of the photographs taken at those events.
Consists of photographs in the form of negatives, prints and slides from Jensen’s visit to the Gitxsan villages in 1975, and from Jensen and Powell’s work and life in the Eastern villages between 1977 – 1982. The images include photographs that were used to illustrate the language books being produced, and other photographs that documented the culture and way of living in these communities.
Item consists of recordings of the Quileute alphabet sheet and pronunciation exercises, read by Fred Woodruff. Created to supplement written language education materials.
File consists of black and white duplicates of colour slides taken by Jensen. Colour printing was expensive at the time, so Jensen printed the images in black and white to use for research purposes.
Includes copy of the publication Quileute for kids, by Vickie Jensen and Carol McLaren. La Push : Quileute Language Committee, ca. 1976 Quileute for kids : book 1
Includes copy of the publication Quileute for kids, by Vickie Jensen and Carol McLaren. La Push : Quileute Language Committee, 1976 Quileute for kids : book 2
Includes copy of the publication Quileute: An introduction to the Indians of La Push, by Jay Powell and Vickie Jensen. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1976
Includes copy of the publication Counting in Quileute, by Vickie Jensen and Carol McLaren. La Push : Quileute Language Committee, 1976 Quileute for kids : book 3
Consists of articles and other records used by Powell to research Chinook Jargon and its historical uses. Powell referenced the sources in the unpublished manuscript Chinook Jargon: The Language of Northwest History.