Umatilla people

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Umatilla
Imatalamłáma
Umatilla girl, 1911
Languages
Umatilla
Religion
Traditional religion, Washat, Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Other Sahaptin peoples

The Umatilla are a Sahaptin-speaking Native American tribe who traditionally inhabited the Columbia Plateau region of the northwestern United States, along the Umatilla and Columbia rivers.[1]

The Umatilla people are called Imatalamłáma, a Umatilla person is called Imatalamłá (with orthographic ł representing IPA

Nez Perce
refer to the Umatilla people as hiyówatalampoo (Aoki (1994:171)).

History

Early development

The Umatilla nation was bordered by the

Paiutes.[2]

Sahaptin tribal representatives in Washington D.C. c.1890. Back row: John McBain (far left), Cayuse chief Showaway, Palouse chief Wolf Necklace, and far right, Lee Moorhouse, Umatilla Indian Agent. Front row: Umatilla chief Peo, Walla Walla chief Hamli, and Cayuse Young Chief Tauitau.

Linguistically, the

infectious diseases contracted from European colonists during the first half of the 19th century.[1]

In 1855 the inland Sahaptin-speaking nations were forced to surrender their historic homelands under

treaty to the United States government,[3] in exchange for territorial set-asides on reservations.[1]

Reservation period

Today the Umatilla share land and a governmental structure with the Cayuse and the Walla Walla tribes as part of the federally recognized

Blue Mountains
.

A number of places and geographic features have been named after the tribe, such as the Umatilla River, Umatilla County, the town of Umatilla, Florida, and Umatilla National Forest. The impoundment of the Columbia River behind the John Day Dam is called Lake Umatilla.

Notable Umatillas

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e "Umatilla," in Barbara A. Leitch, A Concise Dictionary of Indian Tribes of North America. Algonac, MI: Reference Publications, Inc., 1979; pp. 490-491.
  2. ^ a b c Hines, Donald M. The Forgotten Tribes, Oral Tales of the Teninos and Adjacent Mid-Columbia River Indian Nations. Great Eagle Publishing. Issaquah, WA. 1991, p. 55.
  3. ISSN 0030-4727. Archived from the original
    on 2007-01-05.

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