List of Indian Shaker Church buildings in Washington

This is a list of Indian Shaker Church buildings in Washington state. Indian Shaker Church building architecture is unique to the Pacific Northwest, with unadorned, unpainted rectangular wooden structure.^[1]

The list is derived from Washington Secretary of State archives unless noted.^[2]

• Malott
• Muckleshoot Indian Reservation—(Auburn)^[3]
• Mud Bay — Mud Bay Indian Shaker Church was the first Shaker Church
• Neah Bay
• Nespelem
• Nisqually State Park^[4]
• Nooksack
• Oakville
• Queets
• Skokomish; new church house built 1962^[5]
• Swinomish
• Taholah
• Tulalip Indian Reservation—(Marysville): Indian Shaker Church (Marysville, Washington)
• Wapato
• White Swan — Independent Shaker Church of White Swan^[6]
• Yakama Indian Reservation—Satus

The first Shaker Indian church, also called the "mother church", was built above Mud Bay near Olympia, Washington, near the homes the co-founders of the church.^[7][8]

The original about 18-by-24-foot (5.5 m × 7.3 m) church was oriented in an east-west direction, in a manner that would set the pattern for subsequent church architecture.^[9][10]

Sources

• "Washington churches" (PDF), INDIAN SHAKER CHURCH OF WASHINGTON, RECORDS, Washington Secretary of State, c. 1996, pp. 16–17, Ms 29
• Flewelling, Stan (October 2002), "Auburn-area Churches", White River Journal, White River Valley Museum
• 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
• Walker, Deward E. Jr; Schuster, Helen H. (1998), "Religious Movements", in Sturtevant, William C.; Walker, Deward E. Jr (eds.), Handbook of North American Indians, V. 12, Plateau, Smithsonian Institution/United States Government Printing Office, pp. 499–514, ISBN 0-16-049514-8
• Segal Chiat, Marilyn Joyce (1997), America's Religious Architecture: Sacred Places for Every Community, Wiley, ISBN 9780471145028
• "Indian Shakers" (PDF), New York Evening Post, July 29, 1896 – via Fultonhistory.com
• Potter, Elizabeth Walton (January 7, 1976), National Register of Historic Places nomination form: Indian Shaker Church in Marysville, U.S. National Park Service
• Park request for proposal, Nisqually Tribe, May 22, 2014
• Ruby, Robert H.; Brown, John Arthur (1996), John Slocum and the Indian Shaker Church, University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN 9780806128658

• Media related to Indian Shaker Church buildings at Wikimedia Commons