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Chief Moses. Chief Moses (born Kwiltalahun, later called Sulk-stalk-scosum - "The Sun Chief") (c. 1829 – March 25, 1899) was a Native American chief of the Sinkiuse-Columbia, [1] in what is now Washington state. The territory of his tribe extended approximately from Waterville to White Bluffs, in the Columbia Basin.
Structure in Moses-Columbia Salish". International Journal of American Linguistics. 66, no. 3: 410. Drews, Robin Arthur. Culture Sequences in the Middle Columbia Region. 1938. Hunt, Clair. Sinkiuse-Columbia, Nespelim, and Nez Percé Indians on Colville Indian Reservation. 1910. Mattina, Nancy. 2006. "Determiner Phrases in Moses-Columbia Salish".
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. In 1872, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation was formed by executive order under President Ulysses S. Grant for the purpose of occupying the Colville Reservation ...
Less than three months later, the President issued another executive order on July 2, moving the reservation further west, to reach from the Columbia River on the east and south, to the Okanogan River on the west, and the Canada–U.S. border to the north. The new reservation was smaller, at 2,852,000 acres (4,456 sq mi; 11,540 km 2).
Chief Moses was leader of the Sinkiuse tribe from 1859 to 1899, and was forced to negotiate with white settlers who began to settle in the area in the 1880s. Under pressure from the government, Chief Moses traded the Columbia Basin land for a reservation that stretched from Lake Chelan north to the Canada–US border.
Keokuk Falls is a ghost town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma.The location is 4.5 miles north and 15 miles east of Shawnee, [1] as well as one mile west of the Creek Nation and one mile north of the Seminole Nation across the North Canadian River. [1]
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[citation needed] The Columbia Reservation was established in 1879 by the federal government for Columbia Plateau tribes under the leadership of Chief Moses, but was eliminated to open the Methow Valley to American settlement on May 1, 1886. [3] In early 1868, placer gold was discovered in the Slate Creek District.