Writings and Recollections:
Edouard (Ned) Chambreau

I have been reading the different news papers lately and find that there is conflict of opinion concerning the true state of things in Yakama, Naches, Wenas, Kittatas valley and Priest Rapids between the white man & the Indians. There are some say that history repeats its self, but cannot explain why it is so, & there are others that go farther and say that what is taking place now will take place twenty-five thousand years from now. According to that twenty-five thousand years ago I was writing this, & twenty-five thousand years hence I will be writing this same thing again. But be this as it may, I will begin my story.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY     PDF
Compiled by William Wadhams Chambreau

LIFE OF A SCOUT     PDF
The Arrow 1894 Vol.1 Nos. 2-5

NOTEBOOKS     PDF
Compiled by Dennis Chambreau

LETTERS TO GENERAL HOWARD     PDF
Drafts of letters and loose documents

INDIAN QUOTES     PDF
extracted from these writings

"Oh Frenchman, how much do you want us to bear? The Bostons send you to us and you stand between us and them. We would have to shoot through you to kill them. You tell us not to take bad hearts. Half of our spirits now live with the dead, I saw with my own eyes today the Indians’ blood spilt by the white man. And there is nothing to make our hearts glad. The promise the white man made to us has been broken. They bring diseases among us that we never knew anything about & the white men scare all the game away. The camas country is being all fenced up. Soon there will be no salmon. Our relatives are going to the spirit land fast & we are left to mourn."