The Ghost-dance religion and the Sioux outbreak of 1890 : $b Fourteenth annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology, part 2.Mooney, James
Religion
The Ghost-dance religion and the Sioux outbreak of 1890 : $b Fourteenth annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology, part 2.
Mooney, James
Dakota Indians -- Wars, 1890-1891; Ghost dance
As already stated, the Pälus and several other
tribes have never recognized it or come on the reservation, and their
objection to such removal has become a religious principle of the
Smohalla doctrine. In the original treaty of 1855 fourteen tribes are
named as participating, as follows: Yakama (Yäkima), Palouse (Pä′lus),
Pisquouse (Pi′skwaus), Wenatshapam (another name for Piskwaus),
Klikatat (Klûkatät), Klinquit (not identified), Kowwassayee (K′kasawi),
Liaywas (not identified), Skinpah (Skinpä), Wish-ham (Wushqûm), Shyiks
(not identified), Ochechotes (Uchi′chol), Kahmiltpah (Qamil′lĕma), and
Seapcat (Si′apkat). Among these were represented at least six languages
and three linguistic stocks. The majority of these Indians west of the
Columbia, including the Yakima proper and others on the reservation,
are Catholics, with also a number of adherents of the Shaker and
Smohalla doctrines. Those on the reservation numbered 1,200 in 1892,
with an estimated 1,500 outside the boundaries. Beside the principal
band of Yakima, the Waptailmĭm already mentioned, there are also the
Sĕ′tăs-‛lĕma, or “people of the rye prairie,” on Setass creek, a
western tributary of the Yakima in the eastern part of the reservation,
and the Pĭsko, or people of the “river bend,” in a village also on the
south side of the Yakima, between Topinish and Setass creeks. (See
_Pishquitpah_.) Their dialects are said to differ slightly from that of
the Waptailmĭm.
+Ä′tănûm-‛lĕma+ (Shahaptian stock) or “people (_‛lĕma_) of Ätanûm
creek.”—A small tribe on Atahnam creek, in Yakima county, Washington,
on the northern boundary of the reservation. They are said to speak a
language distinct from Yakima or Klûkatät, but cognate. They have no
official recognition now or in the treaty of 1855. The name Ä′tănûm is
Yakima, and refers to a stream “ascended” (by salmon).
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