Chief Moses served his people as a warrior during his younger years, but later tried to protect his people through diplomacy as the leader of the Moses-Columbia. It is located on the Colville Indian Reservation in eastern Washington state. The Colville lived in the area between the Kettle and Columbia Rivers south to the mouth of the Spokane River. 2022 by Entiat Historical Society. Detwiler appealed to David Freer (1836-1888), who was married to one of Chilcosahaskt's daughters, to intervene. Only six structures survived, and they were destroyed in 1921 by yet another fire.). The individually distinct Wenatchi bands, are the following: They were closely related by language with the Entiat and Chelan peoples and through marriage and culture with Upper Yakima bands. [2], Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Chelan legends - "Creation of the first Indians", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chelan_people&oldid=1151450686, This page was last edited on 24 April 2023, at 04:06. She uses pictorial art to tell stories, and her drawings as a plateau style ledger artist are richly influenced by a combination of her tribal history and traditions. The name derives from the traditional Wenatchi name Tsi-Laan meaning "deep water". Although Chilcosahaskt had good relations with Orondo's Dr. Smith and with Chelan's Sanders and Domke, his attitude changed when the Detwilers settled on land the chief considered his. He maintained a ranch by the Kettle River that included a small general store and a horse track. Identification. Top ways to experience nearby attractions Mountain View E-Bike Experience 69 Recommended Adventure Tours from $128.20 per adult Paddles and Pints: Brewery Tour and Whitewater Rafting on the Wenatchee River 3 Adventure Tours from $239.00 per adult Custom Shuttling 1 from $1,200.00 per group (up to 15) The name comes from the Entiat tribe. The new Entiat Park re-opened for camping on Friday, May 22, 2015 after being closed for over a year. With the exception of a scattering of Chinese miners and Big Antoine, it appears that until the mid-1880s the region was inhabited exclusively by several Indian tribes, notably the Wenatchi, Entiat, Columbia, and Chelan. The population density was 527.0 inhabitants per square mile (203.5/km2). He was never allowed to move back to his homeland. As of the census[3] of 2010, there were 1,112 people, 421 households, and 305 families residing in the city. Fed by streams from the Cascade Range, the lake flows into the Columbia River from the Chelan River. 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The Entiat indians are known to make beautiful baskets, which where made out of grass. Lake Entiat provides recreational opportunities that the untamed Columbia could not, and while many older residents moved away in the 1960s, many of the younger generations stayed. Lucy Friedlander Covington (1910-1982) was born in Nespelem on the Colville Indian Reservation and was a lifelong advocate for Colville tribal rights and land, becoming well-known and nationally respected for her fight against the federal policy of termination. The Entiat are members of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, a federally recognized tribe. Sometimes the Chelan (lmxx - "People at the Deep Water, i.e. One surveyors' camp was established at Entiat. Phyllis Griffith, Nuggets of Entiat's Past (Entiat: Entiat Community Historical Society, 2019); Albert Long, Under the Guard of Ole Tyee (Entiat: Wayne and Joanne Long, rev.d 2008); Tom Hackenmiller, Wapato Heritage: The History of the Chelan and Entiat Indians (Manson, Washington: Point Publishing, 1995); A History of Central Washington, Including the Famous Wenatchee, Entiat, Chelan and the Columbia Valleys ed. The Entiat Power Plant opened for business in 1908. Entiat is located at 474040N 1201247W / 47.67778N 120.21306W / 47.67778; -120.21306 (47.677640, -120.213149). But even before a second fire destroyed much of the first town of Entiat in October 1915, the smart money was moving to the new townsite along the Columbia. [1], The Wenatchi tribe was far more isolated prior to the arrival of the horse, but afterward they adopted many of the traditions and style of dress of the Plains Indians and were closely allied with the Spokane tribes by the time white settlers arrived. Our Nation is comprised of seven member communities in the Southern Interior of British Columbia: Okanagan Indian Band, Osoyoos Indian Band, Penticton Indian Band, Upper Nicola Band, Upper and Lower Similkameen Indian Bands, and Westbank First Nation; and in Northern Washington State, the Colville Confederated Tribes. Entiat Tribe Exhibit coming to the Museum on Opening Day, Saturday, May 27, 2023. Last year, we invited Wendell George to join us at the Entiat Museum. Whether you're just driving by and need a break or if in the area and looking for a place to hang out, Entiat City Park is nice place to do either. The years following the arrival of the Detwilers, Bonars, and Cannons saw a slow but steady increase in non-Native settlement on and near the Entiat River. Nespelem George served his people as a peacemaker and mediator. The town's first school (although not the first in the valley), named the Harris School after its first teacher, was opened in 1899, and its small building was expanded in 1905 to accommodate a high school. 1900, Courtesy Washington State Historical Society (S1992.27.178.10), Columbia River at Entiat, Chelan County, 1905, Courtesy UW Special Collections (WAS0185), Wreck, sternwheeled steamship Pringle, Columbia River near Entiat, April 4, 1907, Photo by Lawrence Denny Lindsley, Courtesy UW Special Collections (LIN0473), Entiat Light and Power plant, Entiat River, ca. We are also honored to be working with Artist Cheryl Grunlose, a member of the Lakes, Wenatchee, and Entiat bands of the Colville Confederated Tribes. The loss was total, but partially insured, and the sawmill was back in business the following year. The gender makeup of the city was 51.5% male and 48.5% female. The resulting wars between the 1840s to the 1870s were the final push to tame the West. Many groups lived from Field's Point to the First Creek drain into the lake (now a WA State Park), the Watson's Resort, Granite Falls, Sunnybank drainage, Minneapolis Beach, Laferties Landing or Resort, and the area referred to as Lakeside. In anticipation of the coming of the railroad, in 1909 Charles Gray (1867-1958) of Entiat, joined by James Kennedy of Waterville and George Brown of Chelan Falls, purchased land that ran north from the mouth of the Entiat River along the west bank of the Columbia River. Originally there were 22 locked areas on this island based on in-game data. Dedicated packing sheds and warehouses sprouted up, and when the railroad came through in 1914 fruit warehouses and cold-storage facilities were built adjacent to the tracks. Some Indians refused to leave their traditional areas, instead claiming allotments of land where their forebears had lived, a "privilege" granted to some who had been living on the Moses Columbia Reservation. The population was 1,326 at the 2020 census. Chilcosahaskt was the third of that name to lead his tribe, and he lived his entire life on or near the Entiat River. The Wenatchis (or "P'squosa") were not given reservation land by the federal governmentthough they had actually signed a treaty, it was never recognized, and fell by the wayside as new settlers moved into their territory. Crossing between the glaciers and cliffs on the crest of the mountains, they descended through the tall forests to the land of the Skagit tribes. Lake Chelan") and Entiat were considered simply as another Wenatchi Bands; the Entiat (also known as: Inti-etook, Intietooks) - which called themselves ntiytkx (Sintia'tkumuk/Sintiatqkumuh) ("People from the place of grassy water/Gras in Water, i.e. Entiat Tribe Exhibit coming to the Museum on Opening Day, Saturday, May 27, 2023 Updated: Mar 1 Last year, we invited Wendell George to join us at the Entiat Museum. Subsequently, most modern day Wenatchis are found living on the Colville Indian Reservation, with a small number living on the Yakama Reservation. The Entiat people are a Native American tribe who exclusively used and occupied an area extending from the Columbia River to the Cascade Mountains along the drainage system of the Entiat River. In 2000, her ledger art took first place at the Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market & Festival in Indianapolis, Indiana. About 9.1% of families and 14.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 14.4% of those under age 18 and 5.7% of those age 65 or over. The Okanogan traditional territory is comprised of the drainage system of the Okanogan and Chewuch rivers, as well as the Sinlahekin Valley. The challenges faced by early settlers struggling to create communities in the wilderness is usually fodder for the most compelling stories about the history of small towns, and Entiat is no different. A Christian Church was built in 1902, a Quaker Church came in 1906, and the First Presbyterian Church was established in 1913. Created July 2008, Colville Tribes, 21 Colville St, Nespelem, WA, 99155, United States. The first priority of the Great Northern's president, James J. Hill (1838-1916), was to push his line over the Cascade Mountains to Seattle and become the nation's first transcontinental railroad to be built without government subsidies. His great-grandfather, Chilcosahaskt, was Chief of the Entiat tribe, his grandfather, Lahompt, started the first family cattle ranch and his dad, Moses, was elected to the first Tribal Council. Wendell George is a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes and is now retired after many careers such as helping land a man on the moon as an engineer for Boeing, tribal planner, elected tribal Councilman, tribal corporation CEO, author, owner and operator of a 100-acre apple orchard and a 150-head cattle ranch. In 1903 the Chief of the Entiat Indian tribe, Shil-how-Saskt (Silico Saska) died. The Chelan tribe also had several permanent villages in the lower Chelan valley. From 1840 onward, the US government tried to move all Indians to reservations. We Are Beautiful, We Are Okanagan, Because Our Land is Beautiful. In 1960, Rocky Reach Dam was constructed downriver from Entiat, much of the town had to be relocated to higher ground due to the rising waters behind the dam. They spoke a version of the Salish language, also called . The Free Encyclopedia of Washington State History. This much can be said with some confidence: In 1896 or 1897 John G. Ely (1837-1915), who had come to the Entiat Valley from Iowa in 1895 to farm, bought a site from Chilcosahaskt that was located on the north bank of the Entiat River, about one-half mile west of its confluence with the Columbia. Orondo was the supply and marketing center for Entiat's earliest settlers, and most who lived in the region assumed that when the railroad inevitably worked its way west from Spokane, it would run along the east bank of the Columbia River and pass through Orondo, all but guaranteeing its prosperity. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the high open range around the Entiat and Mad rivers was prime grazing land for sheep, and later for cattle and horses. Janie Hollingsworth, an early settler born in 1911, remembers fondly growing up with the daughter of the Wenatchi Chief in the Nahahum Canyon area, riding horses together happily until the government decided to round up all the Indians and put them in existing reservations. Ten years earlier, and perhaps unbeknownst to its citizens, a section of the Columbia River known as Rocky Reach, about nine miles south of the mouth of the Entiat River, had been identified by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a potential site for a dam that could supply both electrical power and irrigation. 14, No. [2], Another survey was commissioned in 1893, but federal agent L.T. 25.3% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 22.1% were from 25 to 44; 29.7% were from 45 to 64; and 14.4% were 65 years of age or older. Wendell was also elected to serve on the boards of Wenatchee Valley College, Omak school, and Paschal Sherman Indian school. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 22.57% of the population. One at Willow Point, near Manson, had up to 500 occupants. This first town to be called Entiat grew slowly, but had two failings -- it was not directly on the planned route of the Great Northern Railway, and it had an inordinate susceptibility to fires. He attempted to offer Chief Harmelt individual allotments in the mountains to the remaining Wenatchi people, however Harmelt insisted on consulting with his people before entering into a decision. (The 1915 fire destroyed the Harris School, several businesses, and, for the second time, Gray's mill. In 1877, the first white settler arrived in the Entiat Valley, Lewis Detwiler. The following year Moses agreed to move with his people to the Colville Reservation, which had been created in 1872 by an executive order of President Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885). Some private homes were moved to higher ground behind the second Entiat, or north to the new townsite, and the remaining buildings in the old town were razed or burned. Although considered by some ethnographers to be a subdivision of the larger Wenatchi tribe, the Entiat appear to have been an independent entity, as evidenced by the mark of Lahompt (or La-Hoom), the son of Entiat chief Chilcosahaskt, on the 1855 Yakama Treaty. This page was last edited on 23 November 2022, at 00:30. T. J. Cannon a friend of no ordinary kind, for which he will ever be greatly esteemed" (Hull, 418). Wendell George is a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes and is now retired after many careers such as helping land a man on the moon as an engineer for Boeing, tribal planner, elected tribal Councilman, tribal corporation CEO, author, owner and operator of a 100-acre apple orchard and a 150-head cattle ranch. Post not marked as liked. The Entiat school opened in 1916 in its current location. Raven Speaks: A collection of articles about the culture and history of the Colville Confederated . The Ittiwan people, also spelled Etiwan, [1] were a Native American tribe, who lived near present-day Goose Creek. The Colville Tribes are a confederation of twelve distinct bands of Indians . A large number of place names, including many of the mountains, were given by Albert H. Sylvester. The Museum is situated on a knoll at the north end of the Entiat City Park. My great-grandfather, Chief Chilcosahaskt, remained at the Entiat Valley and my grandfather Lahompt (Chief Koxit George) was the first of our family to move to the Reservation. By the 1860s, smallpox epidemics had virtually ended tribal warfare, due to the drastic decrease in population. Entiat was now free to grow, and it would, if slowly. In 1889 Cannon established the first water-powered sawmill on the Entiat River, and he built the community's first frame house. John Detwiler claimed a homestead near the mouth of the Entiat River; Lewis settled about three miles upriver in the lower Entiat Valley. We have bits and pieces of the story, but told from the settlers' point of view. We are greatly honored thatWendell has given us permission to use words fromhis book . The Confederated Tribes have over 9,000 descendants from 12 aboriginal tribes. Chief Joseph led his band of Nez Perce who refused to leave the Wallowa Valley until a war erupted between his people and the U.S. Ar- my. He did, and the chief was persuaded to leave Detwiler alone. It is crucial to know the history of our area . website accessed June 5, 2020 (https://douglaspud.org/pages/the-orondo-community.aspx); Leo Harker, "Columbia River Bridge," GNGoat website accessed June 8, 2020 (http://www.gngoat.org/columbia_river.htm); Rod Molzahn, "'On the Drift' -- Looking for a Home," The Good Life magazine, Vol. E.P. on beautiful Lake Entiat in Entiat, Washington. . Long Jims father was Innomeseecha, who was also a leader of the Chelan. He had planted peach trees near his claim, the first documented cultivation of tree fruit in the valley. The earliest crop was a wide variety of apples, which the homesteaders would pick, sort, pack, and send off to market. Murphy began publishing the Entiat Times in 1913, and railroad service began in Entiat in 1914 . The majority of Nez Perce villages concentrated on the banks of the middle Snake and Clearwater Rivers, as well as the northern portion of the Salmon River. The Confederated Tribes have over 9,000 descendants from 12 aboriginal tribes. After the arrival of the horse, Plateau tribes faced more competition from the Plains Indians and Indians from the Great Basin. Lake Chelan is 51.5 miles (82.9km) long and .75 to 2.1 miles wide, and is the third-deepest freshwater lake in the United States and the ninth-deepest in the world with a maximum depth of 1,486 feet (453m). The confrontations stopped and were not renewed. By this time Chilcosahaskt had come to accept their presence, and one history notes that he was "naturally of a good disposition, although the same cannot be said of his wife" (Hull, 445). In that same year a wagon road was completed between Wenatchee and Twisp, passing through Entiat and easing its isolation. In 1899 (some sources say 1901) Charles C. King (1859-1938), who had volunteered to be Entiat's first postmaster, built a second store, which also housed the post office. 2022 by Entiat Historical Society. Villages were the basic political units of the region's tribes, usually composed of related individuals and essentially autonomous. The racial makeup of the city was 79.31% White, 0.52% African American, 1.67% Native American, 0.21% Asian, 16.51% from other races, and 1.78% from two or more races. Silicosasket refused to relocate to the Colville Reservation and took an allotment at the mouth of the Entiat River. Occasionally, to trade with or visit coastal relatives, the Chelans would canoe up to the head of the lake where they knew of a route that followed a swift stream between high peaks. Get your membership today and you will receive as a Thank You, * A pack of Historic Photos of Entiat postcards, All members are invited to the ECHS Annual Opening Day Event, All members will have lending privileges to the new Museum Library, Please include your name, address, email and check, ( and optionally your phone ) in your request for membership, 2022 by Entiat Historical Society. The Great Northern Railway bridged the Columbia River south of Wenatchee in 1892, and more than two decades later ran its line north along the river's west bank, securing Entiat's continued existence and at least modest prosperity. His great-grandfather, Chilcosahaskt, was Chief of the Entiat tribe, his grandfather, Lahompt, started the first family cattle ranch and his dad, Moses, was elected to the first Tribal Council. Kinkanaqua was the last Salmon Chief of Kettle Falls. Under that grant, the federal government would hold title to the land "in trust" for 25 years, meaning that the chief would not be free to sell it without permission until 1921. The tribe's original name, Entiatqua, has been translated as both "rapid water" (Meany, 80) and "place of grassy water" (Bright, 145), although the first is most widely accepted. language Salishan languages, English language population place Washington (state) related It was also in 1899, on March 13, that Chelan County was created by the state legislature from parts of Okanogan County to the north and Kittitas County to the south. [8], According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.74 square miles (7.10km2), of which, 2.11 square miles (5.46km2) is land and 0.63 square miles (1.63km2) is water.[9]. There were 342 households, out of which 38.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.9% were married couples living together, 7.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.4% were non-families. Read more. In 1892, to the chagrin of Orondo and other nearby towns on the east bank of the Columbia River, the Great Northern Railway built a bridge to cross the river at Rock Island, about 10 miles south of today's Wenatchee. The history of the Entiat tribe and my great-grandfather Chilcosahaskt was little known until recently when Chelan County Public Utility District and the town of Entiat began an extensive upgrade of Entiat Park. But there was a lingering problem -- heirs of Chief Chilcosahaskt were pursuing a claim that much of the land upon which the second Entiat sat belonged to them, and not to the Entiat Townsite Company. The tribe also roamed widely through central and north-central Washington, from Kettle Falls in the north to the Yakima River in the south to the slopes of the Cascade Mountains in the west. In 1912 a fire destroyed the sawmill that had been started by Thomas Cannon in 1889 and was at the time of the fire owned by Gray. WikiMatrix. ), a bachelor, and his brother John, who was married and had one child. However, in 1902 Chilcosahaskt, at his request and pursuant to another statute, was granted a patent-in-fee to the land, which gave him full and clear title and the legal right to dispose of it when and as he wished. John Harmelt refused to sell the Wenatchi rights to a reservation and remained in the Wenatchee area until his death. The southern limit of the Lakes land is found near Northport, though many also fished at Kettle Falls. There soon followed a confectionary store, a gathering place called Jinkin's Hall, the Blind Pig Tavern, and a barber shop. The Methow originally lived in and around the Methow River Valley. The Lakes territory centered around the upper Columbia River, possibly reaching as far north as the Big Bend of the Columbia, north of Revelstoke, British Columbia. See Entiat hotels on a map Choose one of the following to unlock Secret Prices and pay less on selected hotels. The Entiat Mountains, or Entiat Range is a mountain range in the U.S. state of Washington.
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