Colville Indian Reservation

The Colville Indian Reservation (English Colville Indian Reservation ) is an Indian reservation in the upper Columbia Basin in the U.S. state of Washington. Is named the reserve after Andrew Colville, a director of the Hudson 's Bay Company. Today tribal members prefer the spelling Colvile.

Location

The landscape is dominated by canyons, desert, mountain streams, lakes in granite basins and forested mountains. The eastern and southern boundary of the reserve is formed by the Columbia River, the Okanogan River Western. At the southern border lies the Grand Coulee Dam, which dams the Columbia River. In the reserve Colville Confederated Tribes, the Museum and a former Catholic mission located. The area is surrounded on three sides by state forests, where there are, among others, the Pasayten, the Glacier Peak and Lake Chelan - Sawtooth Wilderness, which together form the largest area of the United States without roads.

History

Before the arrival of Europeans, the natives lived on the upper Columbia River in permanent settlements and camps that they visited only during the salmon runs. The main fishing grounds were the Kettle Falls on the Canadian border today, before the construction of dams, one of the most powerful waterfalls in the Columbia River. Here a number of strains of each year came together to replenish their stocks of salmon. 1826 established the Hudson 's Bay Company near the Kettle Falls a trading post, the exchanged blankets, beads and iron goods for furs. Between 1826 and 1871 a lively trade in beaver skins, buffalo hides and skins game took place here - up to 20,000 skins went over the tables of the merchants.

The Kettle Falls are today as well as the former trading post and Fort Colville buried under the waters of Lake Roosevelt, created by the Grand Coulee Dam.

The reserve increased in the limits of the Treaty of 1855 one third of the State of Washington a. Early as 1875 it had shrunk to an area of about two million hectares. A few months later settlers forced the federal government once again to rewrite the contract and to expel the twelve tribes that lived on the reservation of the Eastern Washington further to the west.

The Senijextee and Sinkaietk (also called ' Southern Okanagon ') were the largest of the twelve tribes, who were deported to the reservation. To them came the Colville, Entiat ( Chelan ), Methow, Moses Columbia, Nespelem, Palouse, Sanpoil and Wenatchi. All spoke Salish dialects, but a group of Nez Perce, who spoke Sahaptin. This group, the survivors of the Chief Joseph, came to the reservation, as they returned from their exile in Oklahoma. Chief Joseph, who died in 1902 sitting in front of his tipi is buried near the tribal headquarters in the town of Nespelem.

Swell

• January Halliday, Gail Chehak in Cooperation with the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians: Native Peoples of the Northwest, Seattle 2007

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• Indian reservation in the United States
• Geography (Washington)