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The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Okanagan: sx̌ʷy̓ʔiłpx sqlxʷúlaʔxʷ) [1] is the federally recognized tribe that controls the Colville Indian Reservation, which is located in northeastern Washington, United States. It is the government for its people.
The Confederated Tribes and the Colville Indian Reservation are governed by the Colville Business Council. [5] From its administrative headquarters located at the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Agency at Nespelem, the Colville Business Council oversees a diverse, multi-million-dollar administration that employs from 800 to 1,200 individuals in ...
Through its influence nearly all the upper Columbia tribes were Christianized. [3] In 1872, the Colville tribe was relocated to an Indian reservation in eastern Washington named after them. [3] It is inhabited and managed by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, which is a federally recognized tribe comprising twelve bands. The ...
Location of Reservation Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation: 833 4,215 Southeastern Grays Harbor County and southwestern Thurston County: Colville Indian Reservation: 9,353 1,400,000 Primarily in the southeastern section of Okanogan County and the southern half of Ferry County: Cowlitz Reservation: 4,800 152 Ridgefield, WA (Clark ...
An excavation in April 1988, led by Peter J. Mehringer of Washington State University, with a team of leading local and national authorities in Paleo-Indian Archaeology and members of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, discovered 22 more stone and bone tools, but removed only five for laboratory study.
Inchelium (Okanagan: N̓čaʔlíwm̓) [2] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Ferry County, Washington, United States on the Colville Indian Reservation. The population was 431 at the 2020 Census. Inchelium was relocated from an earlier site in the early 1940s.
Adeline Fredin was a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and a pioneering archaeologist dedicated to preserving the history of the Colville Tribe. In September 2016, the United States House and Senate passed legislation allowing for the Upper Columbia Basin Tribes to rebury the Ancient One according to traditional ...
It is located on the Colville Indian Reservation in eastern Washington state. The Confederated Tribes have over 9,000 descendants from 12 aboriginal tribes. In addition to the Entiat, the tribes are known in English as the Colville, the Nespelem, the Sanpoil, the Lake , the Palus, the Wenatchi, the Chelan, the Methow, the southern Okanagan, the ...