Sinkiuse-Columbia

The Sinkiuse (also Sinkiuse Columbia or Middle Columbia Salish, as she called James Teit ) are a Native American tribe in Washington. They live on the eponymous Columbia.

The Sinkiuse include culturally to the inland Salish. Their closest relatives are the Wenatchi and Methow. They even called themselves. Tskowa'xtsEnux or. Skowa'xtsEnEx or as Sinkiuse. The latter is intended to mean " between peoples ".

History

The Sinkiuse lived on the east bank of the Columbia between Fort Okanogan and Point Eaton. Later they lived in the Columbia Reservation.

James Mooney estimated their numbers for the year 1780 to around 800, suspected, however, that they counted together with the Pisquow before the first smallpox epidemics up to 10,000.

Teits distinguishes three sub- tribes that. Nkee'us or. S.nkeie ' usox in Umatilla Valley, the Stata'ketux ​​to White Bluffs on the Columbia, and the. Tskowa'xtsEnux or. Skowa'xtsFnEx, Moses - Columbia or Moses band mentioned.

The first French traders called the Sinkiuse of rock Iceland in Wenatchee as " Isles des Pierres ". They even called themselves Kawatchens, as " people of the banks ." Another village lies near Beverly.

According to the tradition of Moses Sinkiuse their ancestors came from the north. Your tail area ranged north to the Badger Mountains south of the present Waterville and east of Columbia, and north-eastwards to the present Grand Coulee Dam and from there south to the Soap Lake, Ephrata and Moses Lake, from there on up to the room Beverly.

In July 1811 met David Thompson, fur trader of the Northwest Company, on rock Iceland well on the Sinkiuse - Kawachen, which he called " Sinkowarsin ". Their leader was Sulktalthscosum or Half- Sun (half sun). He died in battle with Indians on the prairie bison hunting to 1850. 1851 it was estimated that the Sinkiuse to 300 as chief followed Sulktalthscosums son Quiltenenock or Quiltomee, who was murdered in 1858 by white prospectors near the mouth of Wenatchee. He was succeeded by his brother Moses, who had received his biblical name of the missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission. They sat in Lapwai, Idaho.

Moses, who initially fought the white settlers, held its men of hostilities and took over the lead at the same time several tribes who had signed with the U.S. no contract. So it was estimated that the tribesmen now to around 1000th On April 19, 1879 this confederation received a reservation, which was called Moses Reservation. On May 6, 1880, was extended southwards and now extended from Lake Chelan to the Canadian border and from the Cascade Range to the Okanogan River. Under pressure from the settlers first a strip in the north of the reserve was separated, then further reduced, finally dissolved on July 7, 1883. On 1 May 1886, was public property again. During the whole time the Moses group but not lived in the reserve, but lived in the Colville Reservation, referring only duties of the white settlers.

In 1900 it was estimated that the Sinkiuse to 300 to 400, 1910 were counted only 52 in 1959 there were still 94 "thoroughbred " Sinkiuse within the reserve, and 52 more outside. A small group leads today back to the Moses group.