Mud Bay Indian Shaker Church
Mud Bay Indian Shaker Church is the first church built by the Indian Shaker Church.[2]
| Mud Bay Indian Shaker Church | |
|---|---|
 1896 drawing of the church building | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Indian Shaker Church |
| District | Thurston |
| Location | |
| Municipality | Mud Bay near Olympia |
| State | Washington |
| Country | United States |
| Geographic coordinates | 47.0606°N 123.0170°W |
| Architecture | |
| Completed | c. 1885, rebuilt in 1910[1] |
| Specifications | |
| Length | 24-foot (7.3 m) |
| Width | 18-foot (5.5 m) |
| Materials | Unfinished wood |
The first Shaker Indian church, also called the "mother church", was built c. 1885 near Olympia, then the capital of Washington Territory. The structure was built on a shoulder of the Black Hills above Mud Bay,[3] at the southern end of Eld Inlet, an arm of Puget Sound.[4][5][6][7] 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,[8] first and second "headman"s respectively. Mud Bay Sam was the first Bishop (church leader) after incorporation of Shaker Indian Church in 1910.[4]
The original church was oriented in an east-west direction, in a manner that would set the pattern for subsequent church architecture.[9] 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.[10] The Mud Bay church was rebuilt in 1910.[9]
References
- Barnett 1972, p. 50.
- SOS 1996.
- Steele 1957, p. 11.
- SOS 1996, p. 3.
- Wilkinson 2012, p. 253.
- Ruby & Brown 1996, p. 117.
- Kirk & Alexander 1995, p. 354.
- Mooney 1896, pp. 754 and 758.
- Potter 1976.
- Evening Post 1896, p. 8.
Sources
- "Washington churches" (PDF), INDIAN SHAKER CHURCH OF WASHINGTON, RECORDS, Washington Secretary of State, c. 1996, pp. 16–17, Ms 29
- 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; Alexander, Carmela (1995), Exploring Washington's past : a road guide to history (Rev. ed.), Seattle: University of Washington Press, ISBN 0295974435
- 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
- "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, U.S. National Park Service
- Barnett, H.G. (1972), Indian Shakers: A Messianic Cult of the Pacific Northwest, SIU Press, ISBN 9780809385720
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