Once five brothers lived on Great River. They were the Chinook brothers and they caused the warm wind to
Between the years of 1855 and 1858 the Yakama Indians (spelled Yakima at the time) were living along the Columbia and Yakima Rivers on the plateau in central Washington Territory. Residing in an area
When news of the Whitman Massacre reached the provisional Oregon Territorial capitol at Oregon City in early December, immediate steps to raise a volunteer regiment began. Organizing a force of about
The Whitman Massacre on November 29, 1847 instigated the Cayuse War which would last for seven bloody years between the Cayuse people and the United States Government and local white
Since time immemorial, the lands of Our People extended in all directions along the Cascade Mountain Range to the Columbia River and
The Umatilla Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in eastern Oregon in the United States, mostly located in Umatilla County, with a very small part extending south into Union
Walla Walla is a Sahaptin Native American tribe of the northwestern United States. The reduplication of the word expresses the diminutive form. The name "Walla Walla" is translated several ways but
James Lavadour (born 1951) is a Walla Walla painter and printmaker. Co-Founder of the Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, he is known for creating large panel sets of landscape
Daniel Jeffery Henderson, is an American former Olympic wrestler and current mixed martial artist fighting for
Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at the treatyground, Camp Stevens, in the Walla-Walla Valley, this ninth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and
Marcus Amerman is an award-winning Choctaw bead artist, glass artist, painter, fashion designer, and performance artist, living north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is known for his highly realistic
A rest stop along the historic Oregon Trail, the Whitman Mission was the site of the 1847 massacre that played a key role in America’s westward
The new Washington Territory governor, Isaac Stevens, spearheaded an ill-fated treaty process by threatening to remove the natives by force if they didn't sell their
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