Colville people
The Colville people (
History
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The Colville tribe was originally located in eastern Washington on the Colville River and the area of the Columbia River between Kettle Falls and the town of Hunters.[1]
The tribe's history is tied with Kettle Falls, an important salmon fishing resource,
In 1872, the Colville tribe was relocated to an
Eight of these related bands are the names of rivers that flow off of the eastern slopes of the North Cascades or the Okanagan Highlands of eastern Washington. Several of these rivers have small towns or communities where the rivers flow into the Columbia River. Beginning in the Southwest the rivers in order as you go north and then east are the: Wenatchee (Town of Wenatchee), Entiat (Town of Entiat), Chelan (Town of Chelan), Methow (Town of Methow, upstream of the confluence with the Columbia), Okanogan (Town of Okanogan, upstream of the Confluence), Nespelem (Tribal community of Nespelem, upstream of the confluence), Sanpoil (Tribal community of Sanpoil, on the Sanpoil arm of Lake Roosevelt), and Colville (Town of Colville, upstream of the confluence). The Arrow Lakes are upstream on the Columbia River a little ways above the border in British Columbia. The Moses Coulee, Moses-Columbia, is an Ice Age Canyon (coulee) just south of the Columbia River west of Coulee City on U.S. Highway 2. Not to be confused, Coulee City is located in the Grand Coulee, a similar and more famous Ice Age Canyon that lies east of the Moses Coulee.
The Nez Perce are the descendants of Chief Joseph band which came from Northeast Oregon. As part of the conditions of surrender Chief Joseph and his band were not allowed to return to their home in Oregon and were eventually re-located to the Colville reservation after the so-called "Flight of the Nez Perce" in 1877. The Nez Perce (not including the small group re-located to Colville) are located on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation in West central Idaho along the Clearwater River.
Mooney (1928) estimated the number of the Colville at 1,000 as of 1780, but
Language
The Colville language or N̓x̌ʷʔiłpcən is one of six dialects of
Together with Wenatchee-Columbian, Spokane-Kalispel-Bitterroot, and Coeur d'Alene, Colville-Okanagan belong to the four
Notable people
- Jim Boyd, musician
- Joe Feddersen, artist
- Kimberly Norris Guerrero, actress
- Lawney Reyes artist, curator, and memoirist
References
- ^ "Colville Indians". accessgenealogy.com. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
- ^ New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
External links
- "Washington Indian Tribes". accessgenealogy.com. Retrieved November 11, 2014.