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
southward to the forty-fourth parallel, from the Cascade range east to
the Blue mountains. See _Tapänäsh_.
+Tûkspû′sh+ or +John Day Indians+ (Shahaptian stock).—_Synonyms_:
Dock-spus, John Day Rivers, Tûkspûsh-‛lĕma. A tribe speaking the Tenino
language and formerly living along the lower part of John Day river,
Oregon, having their principal village at the falls about 4 miles above
the mouth. They are now on Warmspring reservation, and numbered 59 in
1892, with perhaps others off the reservation. Tûkspûsh is the name of
John Day river in the Tenino language.
+Lohĭm+ or +Willow Creek Indians+ (Shoshonean stock).—A tribe living
on Willow creek, in Gilliam and Morrow counties, Oregon. They are
of Shoshonean connection, being the only Indians of this stock who
have been able to maintain their position on the Columbia against the
inroads of the Shahaptian tribes. They have never made a treaty with
the government, and are generally spoken of as renegades belonging to
the Umatilla reservation. In 1870 they were reported to number 114, but
are not mentioned in the recent official reports.
+Cayuse+ or +Wailĕ′tpu+ (Waiilatpuan stock).—_Synonyms_: Cailloux,
Kayuse, Shiwanish, Skyuse, Wailetma, Yeletpo Chopunnish (of Lewis and
Clark). The Cayuse are a warlike tribe of distinct stock formerly
occupying the mountain country on the heads of Wallawalla, Umatilla,
and Grande Ronde rivers in Oregon and Washington, including the present
Umatilla reservation. Further investigation may yet establish a
linguistic connection with the Shahaptian tribes. The Molala, formerly
on Molalla creek, west of the Cascades, are a separated band, of
whose western migration the Cayuse and their neighbors still have a
tradition. The Cayuse formerly bore a high reputation for intelligence
and bravery, but on account of their fighting propensities, which led
them to make constant war on the Snakes and other tribes to the west,
they were never very numerous. In 1838 a Presbyterian mission, called
Waiilatpu, had been established among the Cayuse, by Dr Whitman, where
now is the town of Whitman, in Wallawalla county, Washington. In 1847
the smallpox, before unknown among them, carried off a large part of
the tribe. The Cayuse, believing that the missionaries were the cause
of it, attacked the mission on November 29, 1847, killed Dr Whitman and
thirteen others, and destroyed the mission. As a matter of fact, there
seems little question that the infection was brought into the country
in supplies intended for the use of the mission or of emigrants
temporarily stopping there. In 1854, according to Stevens, “the tribe,
though still dreaded by their neighbors on account of their courage and
warlike spirit, is but a small one, numbering, according to the census
of 1851, only 126. Of these, individuals of the pure blood are few, the
majority being intermixed with the Nez Percés and the Wallah-Wallahs,
particularly with the former, to such a degree that their own language
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