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
has fallen into disuse.” A few years ago only a few individuals, then
living on Umatilla reservation, retained their old language. In 1855
they joined in the treaty by which Umatilla reservation in Oregon was
set apart, and most of those remaining are now there, while a few
others are with the Nez Percés at Lapwai. Joseph, the noted Nez Percé
chief, is himself the son of a Cayuse father. In 1892 the Cayuse on
Umatilla reservation were reported to number 391, but it is evident
that most of these are mixed-bloods of other tribes, particularly the
Umatilla. The name Cayuse is from the Nez Percé language. They call
themselves Wailĕtpu. They are known to the Yakima as Wi′alĕt-pûm or
Wai′lĕtma, and to the Tenino as Shiwanish, or “strangers from up the
river,” a name extended also to the Nez Percés.
+Umatilla+ (Shahaptian stock).—_Synonym_: Utilla. A tribe formerly
occupying the lower portion of the river of the same name, with the
adjacent bank of the Columbia, in Oregon. They speak a distinct
language of the Shahaptian stock. By the treaty of 1855 they agreed to
go on Umatilla reservation in Oregon, where in 1892 they were reported
to number 216. A large proportion of those now called Cayuse on the
same reservation are Umatilla mixed-bloods.
+Wallawalla+ (Shahaptian stock).—_Synonyms_: Oualla-Oualla, Walawaltz,
Wollawollah, Wollaw-Wollah. A tribe formerly occupying the country
about the lower portion of the river of the same name and along the
east bank of the Columbia from Snake river down nearly to the Umatilla,
in Washington and Oregon. They take their name from the river, the
word being said to refer to “rushing water.” Their language is said to
resemble closely that of the Nez Percés. By the treaty of 1855 they
agreed to go on Umatilla reservation, Oregon, where, in 1892, they were
reported to number 474.
A small band of the same tribe, known to the Yakima as Walu′la-pûm,
formerly lived on the west bank of the Columbia opposite the present
Wallula. Their dialect is said to have been more akin to the Pä′lus
language.
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