Chief Chilcosahaskt had kept several of Big Antoine's peach trees, and in 1893 William F. Cannon (1854-1928) planted the valley's first commercial orchard. Even so, at least four large sternwheelers and their cargos were lost, but with only a single loss of life. Orientation. Repository Eastern Washington University Archives & Special Collections Eastern Washington University Libraries 320 Media Lane - 100 LIB Cheney, WA 99004-2453 Telephone: 5093592475 archives@ewu.edu Access Restrictions The Keystone Fruit Company opened for business in the valley in 1910. 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. The harassment carried over into the early summer of 1888, when Thomas J. Cannon (1856-1925), an ordained minister, arrived with his wife, Sarah (1834-1936). 116 years to be exact. It is the only island that can produce the following resources: Sun Tiles using Sun Tree. Moses-Columbia Chief Moses 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. Near the restrooms is a nice sculpture of the chief of the Entiat tribe who lived during 3 centuries. This has led to an opportunity to record history for posterity. Written 13 . Ittiwan. Today 12 tribes, including the Wenatchi, Chelan, and Entiat, comprise the Federated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Sometimes the Chelan (lmxx - "People at the Deep Water, i.e. As a result, many businesses either did not reopen or moved to other communities, and those that did reopen clustered in two separate business areas -- this in a town of only 357 people (1960). 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. 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. 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. On September 4, 1888, Bonar noted in his diary, "Found in Rev. . The homeland of the Chelan centered around the shoreline of Lake Chelan and down the Chelan River to the Columbia River. The Wenatchee tribe (also spelled Wenatchi) lived along the Wenatchee River, which flowed from the Cascades into the Columbia. Copyright 2017 Okanagan Nation Alliance. In 1915 a second fire threatened the "first" town of Entiat and only six businesses survived. The Colville lived in the area between the Kettle and Columbia Rivers south to the mouth of the Spokane River. [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 . Entiat Tribe Exhibit coming to the Museum on Opening Day, Saturday, May 27, 2023. 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. Males had a median income of $33,487 versus $21,324 for females. In his absence, Erwin told the Yakama tribal leaders that the Wenatchi had sold their land rights, and the Yakama sold their share for $20,000.[3][2]. The Cannons' daughter, Dema, was the first white child born in the Entiat Valley. The Entiat Improvement Company was the major commercial center at that time. The median age was 33 years. He presided at the Ceremony of Tears prior to the inundation of Kettle Falls in 1939 and served his people faithfully until his death in 1961. There were inevitable disagreements over the value of the properties, and disputes about the location of a new commercial district. After its first relocation, the town grew slowly. by Lindley Hull (Spokane: Shaw & Borden Company, 1929); An Illustrated History of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan, and Chelan Counties (Spokane: Western Historical Publishing Company, 1904); William Compton Brown, The Indian Side of the Story (Spokane: C.W. Post not marked as liked. One at Willow Point, near Manson, had up to 500 occupants. T. J. Cannon a friend of no ordinary kind, for which he will ever be greatly esteemed" (Hull, 418). 2022 by Entiat Historical Society. In 1912, as the population in the region increased and its fruit industry expanded, the Great Northern began surveying a route that would carry the railroad to as far north as Oroville near the Canadian border. The Confederated Tribes have over 9,000 descendants from 12 aboriginal tribes. Included among these were the Entiat chief, Chilcosahaskt, who homesteaded land at the mouth of the Entiat River, and N'k'whilekin (1825-1911), known to white settlers as Wapato John, who settled on Lake Chelan. 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. The Palus territory extended from the confluence of the Snake and Columbia Rivers in the west. By the 1860s, smallpox epidemics had virtually ended tribal warfare, due to the drastic decrease in population. The population density was 527.0 inhabitants per square mile (203.5/km2). Jim James was one of the last individuals to be regarded as a traditional chief. Cables were anchored along the river bank and used to winch the steamboats upstream to stiller waters. The first public school was established in Entiat in 1891. The Chelan Indians often traded mountain goat wool for dried clams and salmon, or for seashells, which they used for future trade or ornamentation. "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places in Washington: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2019", "2020 United States Census Profile: Entiat, Washington", "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Entiat,_Washington&oldid=1147338408, This page was last edited on 30 March 2023, at 09:00. Share. The terrain along the river's length ranges from a narrow, steep, glaciated valley in the upper reaches to a broader U-shaped valley through the middle and lower stretches. The Chelan were historically located at the outlet of Lake Chelan in the U.S. state of Washington, where they spent the winter months. At one point more than 13,000 sheep in eight bands were counted in the area, but the industry was greatly diminished by drought, the Great Depression, wartime labor shortages, and changing tastes. 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. 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. Wendell George, a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes of Washington, talks about a new park in honor of the Entiat Tribe and Chief Chilcosahaskt: 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. The Entiat Power Plant opened for business in 1908. Also in 1908, Charles A. Harris and J. E. Stout started constructing the Entiat Light and Power Company plant, spinning its turbines with water diverted from the Entiat River about a mile and a half up from its mouth. 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 Entiat regarded Cannon as a holy man and trusted him. Rune stones using Tree of Dreaming. We are greatly honored that Wendell has given us permission to use words from his book , Last Chief Standing , to tell the story of the Entiat Tribe from his tribe's perspective. Most of the original buildings were razed or moved to a location north of the original town. Chelan County embraces the drainages of the Wenatchee River, the Entiat River, and Lake Chelan, and the Chelan River for a total of 2,920 square miles. A Christian Church was built in 1902, a Quaker Church came in 1906, and the First Presbyterian Church was established in 1913. It was titled "Millside Addition," leaving unanswered the question of what earlier plat, if any, it was an addition to. In 1903 the Chief of the Entiat Indian tribe, Shil-how-Saskt (Silico Saska) died. 2022 by Entiat Historical Society. Non-Native settlers had difficulty pronouncing many Indian names and called him Silico Saska. After years of exile in Oklahoma, Joseph accepted Chief Moses offer to move to the Colville Reservation. 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. There were 400 housing units at an average density of 292.8 per square mile (112.7/km2). In the city, the age distribution of the population shows 32.5% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 27.6% from 25 to 44, 21.6% from 45 to 64, and 10.2% who were 65 years of age or older. 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. The sternwheelers from Wenatchee were a boon to freight traffic, but it was to Orondo, and to Waterville about eight miles farther east, that Entiat's early settlers went for supplies, mail, schooling, and socializing. The ranch was a large hay and cattle ranch. In 2000, her ledger art took first place at the Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market & Festival in Indianapolis, Indiana. One surveyors' camp was established at Entiat. A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest: Book on the history of the Northwest Coast tribes, including a section on the Chelan. (The 1915 fire destroyed the Harris School, several businesses, and, for the second time, Gray's mill. The Confederated Tribes have over 9,000 descendants from 12 aboriginal tribes. When Lewis Detwiler first arrived, Chilcosahaskt confronted him on the bank of the Columbia, and after Detwiler had settled on his homestead upriver, the chief and one of his his sons, armed, tried to scare him off. Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation - A Brief History, "Tribe longs for home Twice cheated by the federal government, the Wenatchi fight to reclaim ancestral lands;", False Promises: The Story of the Wenatchi Indians, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wenatchi&oldid=1123301003, Native American tribes in Washington (state), Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau, "Related ethnic groups" needing confirmation, Articles using infobox ethnic group with image parameters, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. We have. They were frequently on the move, traveling in and out of the mountains with the seasons, collecting plants, fishing small streams, and hunting game. They were located approximately 30 miles northeast of Charleston, South Carolina. Their traditional allies were the kindred Wenatchi, Sinkiuse-Columbia, and Entiat. The average household size was 2.80 and the average family size was 3.27. EAT service area comprises over 100,000 square miles of the most beautiful, remote, and challenging locations in the . In 1877, the first white settler arrived in the Entiat Valley, Lewis Detwiler. Published histories vary somewhat on the precise chronology, but are in agreement that the first white settlers in the Entiat Valley were Lewis Detwiler (1850-? By June 1893 he had succeeded, but it would be two decades before rails would reach the Columbia River towns north of Wenatchee. 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. We are from the Entiat tribe which is one of the twelve tribes making up the Colville Confederated Tribes. ParaCrawl Corpus. The name comes from the Entiat tribe. 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 Detwiler claimed a homestead near the mouth of the Entiat River; Lewis settled about three miles upriver in the lower Entiat Valley. 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. 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. In the earliest days it was often Silhohsaskt, fully versed in the hazards of the Columbia River, who ferried people across in his dugout canoe. Most sources place the founding of the town in 1897, when what is now Chelan County was still part of Okanogan County, but there is no township plat to be found in the records of the Okanogan County Auditor. The Museum is situated on a knoll at the north end of the Entiat City Park. ), a bachelor, and his brother John, who was married and had one child. Chilcosahaskt's heirs sued, arguing that the issuance of the patent-in-fee was in error and perhaps fraudulent, that the trust patent remained in effect, and that the sale of the land to the Bonars was therefore void, which would invalidate all subsequent sales. 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. Water for Entiat came not from the river, but from a spring to the north of the townsite. The chief died on February 10, 1903, and on June 1 his estate administrator sold the land to members of the pioneering Bonar family. The Wenatchi people or npqwxi / Npqwsx ("People in the between") are Native Americans who originally lived near the confluence of the Columbia and Wenatchee Rivers in Central Washington state. It is inhabited and managed by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, which is a federally recognized tribe comprising twelve bands. Early settlers in the Entiat Valley relied primarily on logging, farming, and ranching. Proudly created with Wix.com. The Entiat speak English. 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. Entiat was officially incorporated on April 25, 1944. The Museum is situated on a knoll at the north end of the Entiat City Park. See Entiat hotels on a map Choose one of the following to unlock Secret Prices and pay less on selected hotels. Cheryl began her artistic career in 1995 and attended the prestigious Institute of American Indian arts in Santa Fe. We Are Beautiful, We Are Okanagan, Because Our Land is Beautiful. When you become a member you are insuring that the story of Entiat will not be forgotten. 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. They lived around the Columbia River and could be found all the way up the Cascade Mountains. These boats, which could carry more than 100 passengers and tons of freight, made a stop at a sand bar just north of the mouth of the Entiat River. The racial makeup of the city was 81.5% White, 0.4% African American, 0.4% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 0.4% Pacific Islander, 13.8% from other races, and 3.3% from two or more races. The town's last move, in the early 1960s, presented unique challenges for the community. This is the reservoir formed behind Rocky Reach Dam. ETHNONYMS: Haidah, Hydah, Hyder. 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. 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. In 1883, in an agreement between Moses and the federal government, the Moses Columbia Reservation ceased to exist. In that same year a wagon road was completed between Wenatchee and Twisp, passing through Entiat and easing its isolation. All rights reserved. Today the Syilx Okanagan People continue to assert their jurisdiction and responsibility over the stewarding of their land, resources and quality of life of their citizens. The Keystone Fruit Company opened for business in the valley in 1910. In one large sweep of change, the economic basis, the identity of a community, and the sense of belonging were gone" (Griffith, 91). Raven Speaks: A collection of articles about the culture and history of the Colville Confederated . The non-Native history of Entiat properly begins in Douglas County, where in 1887 Dr. John Brown Smith (1837-1917) filed the first plat for the town of Orondo on the opposite (east) bank of the Columbia. A large number of place names, including many of the mountains, were given by Albert H. Sylvester. Erwin, who was aligned with the settlers and railroad company, intervened in the process. It is located on the Colville Indian Reservation in eastern Washington state. It went online in 1910, and although service could be erratic at times, the plant provided electricity not just to Entiat, but to Orondo, Waterville, and Wenatchee as well. Their traditional enemies were Shoshone, Kwalhioqua (also known as Willapa who lived in the hills north of the lower Columbia River), the Blackfoot Confederacy, and Nez Perce at times, at others they were allies. Wendell introduced us to Cheryl A. Grunlose, artist and member of the Lakes, Wenatchee, and Entiat bands of the Colville Confederated Tribes to create an art piece to complement the stories of the Entiat Tribe. They traveled over this large area in an annual circuit to gather food. The Chelan speak English. This page was last edited on 23 November 2022, at 00:30. 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. 1920, Statue honoring Chilcosahaskt, Entiat City Park, 2020, Entiat, looking south toward Rocky Reach Dam, ca. (Entiat's last lumber mill operated until 1979.). The Entiat Indian tribe joined the Confederate Tribes of the Coville Reservation in 1855 when the C.T.C.R said that the native americans should own the land without making any payments. 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. 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. Murphy began publishing the Entiat Times in 1913, and railroad service began in Entiat in 1914 . Read more. WikiMatrix. Perhaps uniquely, Entiat has had to move twice since its founding in the 1890s, forced first by fire and, 40 years later, by inundation when the Rocky Reach Dam was completed. Nespelem George served his people as a peacemaker and mediator. 1890, Map, three locations of Entiat between 1897 and 1961, Looking north, Entiat City Park, Lake Entiat (Rocky Reach Dam reservoir). He learned the power of writing down the stories that were passed down through the generations from his parents. #101, 3535 Old Okanagan HwyWestbank, BC V4T 3L7, T: 250.707.0095 | F: 250.707.0166Toll Free: 1.866.662.9609, Syilx Child and Family Declaration Information Sheet, axa i sccuntt i tl xaxitt xl i nqsiltt Family Declaration, Columbia River Salmon Reintroduction Initiative, The Syilx Indian Residential School Experience, Indian Residential Schools Impacts & Syilx Resilience, snklip cxuysts i qaqxlx How Coyote Brought the Salmon, ksxntk (Okanagan Lake) Responsibility Planning Initiative. 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. The Entiat Mountains, or Entiat Range is a mountain range in the U.S. state of Washington. The median income for a household in the city was $33,450, and the median income for a family was $37,083. Interestingly, the first log house in Entiat of the sort that early homesteaders would build belonged to Chilcosahaskt. Entiat, the smallest incorporated municipality in Chelan County, is located on the west bank of the Columbia River, approximately halfway between Lake Chelan to the north and Wenatchee to the south. Co, 1961), 128; Edmond S. 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