Umatilla Reservation (part 6).
Date
1949-12-07
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Abstract
"In 1847 smallpox, before unknown among them, carried off a large part of the tribe. The Cayuse, believing that the missionaries were the cause of it, attacked the mission on November 29, 1847, killed Dr. Whitman and thirteen others... In 1854 according to Stevens 'the tribe, though still dreaded by their neighbors on account of their courage and warlike spirit, is but a small one, numbering according to the census of 1851 only 126. Of these, individuals of the pure blood are few, the majority being intermixed with the Nez Perces and the Wallah-Wallahs, particularly with the former, to such a degree that their own language has fallen into disuse'."
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17 sheets 8.5 x 11 inch. Typed. Editing marks throughout,