Chelan tribe

The Chelan ( gespr -skin -lan ) are among the referred to as Native Americans Native Americans in the U.S. state of Washington. They belong to the group of inland Salish, saying the Wenatchee dialect.

Originally they lived east of the Cascade Range, the mountain range that separates the rainy west and the arid eastern Washington from each other.

History

Beginning of the 19th century mentioned the fur trader Alexander Ross Tsill - anes, which he expected to Oakinacken nation. They drove to the coastal Salish trade, but had to first cross the long Chehalis Lake, then to reach after crossing the Cascade Range a dangerous path along the Skagit River, which led to the Puget Sound. However, the oral tradition also knows of less peaceful contacts.

On November 14, 1872, a severe earthquake occurred, and the first Catholic missionaries used the resulting fears to advance their work. However, the Chelan - chief Nmosize ( Innomoseecha Bill) fought against and burned the mission of the Jesuit Alexander Diomedi down. Nevertheless, the Chelan built a little later a Catholic church called Old Church Wapato Lake, near present-day Manson.

1880 established the American army a post called Camp Chelan at the bottom of Lake Chelan. He served the supervision of reaching northward to the Canadian border Reserve. In the course of the contract with Chief Moses also some Chelan took up residence on the lake. But 40 to 50 men under the leadership of Jim Long refused and there were clashes in which three of his men were imprisoned in the reserve. Long Jim shifted the fight before the courts, but he was defeated there.

The Chelan belong to one of the tribes that aufgingen in the Colville Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation.