Mud Bay Indian Shaker Church

Mud Bay Indian Shaker Church
1896 drawing of the church building
Religion
AffiliationIndian Shaker Church
DistrictThurston
Location
MunicipalityMud Bay near Olympia
StateWashington
CountryUnited States
Geographic coordinates47°03′38″N 123°01′01″W / 47.0606°N 123.0170°W / 47.0606; -123.0170
Architecture
Completedc. 1885, rebuilt in 1910[1]
Specifications
Length24-foot (7.3 m)
Width18-foot (5.5 m)
MaterialsUnfinished wood
The rebuilt church as it appeared in 2015

Mud Bay Indian Shaker Church is the first church built by the Indian Shaker Church.[2]

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]

See also

References

  1. ^ Barnett 1972, p. 50.
  2. ^ SOS 1996.
  3. ^ Steele 1957, p. 11.
  4. ^ a b SOS 1996, p. 3.
  5. ^ Wilkinson 2012, p. 253.
  6. ^ Ruby & Brown 1996, p. 117.
  7. ^ Kirk & Alexander 1995, p. 354.
  8. ^ Mooney 1896, pp. 754 and 758.
  9. ^ a b Potter 1976.
  10. ^ 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