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IMAGE and TEXT: A New Mission DESCRIBING: Infographic showing increased annual migration into and through weyíiletpuu lands between 1840-1847
SYNOPSIS: A series of eight overlapping circles arranged to represent chronological order, their colors shifting from the smallest dark green on the left to the largest yellow-green on the right. These colors are similar to the trees in the cover photo. From left to right, the smallest dark green circle (0.2-inches) represents 15 immigrants arriving in 1840. The next larger circle (0.3-inches) represents 74 immigrants arriving in 1841. The next larger circle (0.4-inches) represents 105 immigrants arriving in 1842. The next larger circle (1.3-inches) represents 1,000 immigrants arriving in 1843. The next larger circle (1.6-inches) represents 1,475 immigrants arriving in 1844. The next larger circle (2.2-inches) represents 3,000 immigrants arriving in 1845. The next circle (2.1-inches) represents 2,700 immigrants arriving in 1846. The last and largest circle (2.8-inches) represents 4,500 immigrants arriving in 1847, the last year of Whitman Mission.
CAPTION: In 1840, 15 US immigrants entered weyíıletpuu lands. Marcus Whitman escorted 1,000 more in 1843. Over 4,500 newcomers arrived in 1847, the last year of Whitman Mission.
1840: 15
1841: 74
1842: 105
1843: 1,000
1844: 1,475
1845: 3,000
1846: 2,700
1847: 4,500
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Originally the missionaries’ calling was to bring their Christian beliefs to the tribes. When Marcus Whitman failed in this calling, he shifted his focus to selling crops and livestock to other missions and ministering to new immigrants. These shifts, along with a growing weyíıletpuu frustration and sense of alienation, transformed the “mission” into an immigrant way station.
“It does not concern me so much what is to become of any particular set of Indians. . . . I have no doubt our greatest work is to be to aid the white settlement of this country and help to found its religious institutions. . . . The Indians have in no case obeyed the command to multiply and replenish the earth, and they cannot stand in the way of others.”—Marcus Whitman in a letter to Narcissa’s parents, 1844
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