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By signing the treaty the Wasco and Warm Springs tribes relinquished 10 million acres of land to the United States and kept 640,000 acres for their own use. The first people from the Paiute tribe to arrive on reservation were the 38 Paiutes that were forced to move onto the Warm Springs Reservation from the Yakama Reservation in 1879. Soon more ...
The Tenino people, commonly known today as the Warm Springs bands, comprised four local subtribes: the Tinainu (TinaynuÉ«áma), or Dalles Tenino: occupied two closely adjacent summer villages on the south bank of the Dalles of the Columbia River / Fivemile Rapids (Fivemile Rapids Site) and a winter village at Eightmile Creek (named from its distance, eight miles from The Dalles); the name of ...
Umatilla Reservation, of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation: 172,882 acres (699.63 km 2), mostly in Umatilla County, with the rest in Union County Warm Springs Reservation , of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs : 641,118 acres (2,594.51 km 2 ), mostly in Wasco County and Jefferson County , with parts in Clackamas ...
One solution proposed by a tribal entity, Warm Springs Ventures, to create new revenue and jobs for the tribe was the launch of three new business ventures: cannabis cultivation, extraction and distribution; drone training, certification and manufacture; and a carbon offset venture that would sell carbon offsets to major polluters. All three ...
As of 2008, there were nine federally recognized tribes in Oregon. [1] They are listed here by the names by which the governments call themselves. Their BIA names may be different. (See Native American tribes in Oregon for the individual tribes and bands.) Burns Paiute Tribe; Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians
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Wishram woman in bridal garb, 1910. Photo by Edward Curtis. The Wasco-Wishram are two closely related Chinook Indian tribes from the Columbia River in Oregon.Today the tribes are part of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs living in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Oregon and Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation living in the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington.
The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...