An Indian Agent's Experience in the War of 1886 - transcript.

Abstract

"The trouble first originated in the tribe of Chief Moses of the Grand Coulee Reservation in Northeastern Washington. A noted medicine man, Sem O Holla, commonly known as Smoholly, having possessed himself of a tamanowas (spirit) began to dream dreams and see visions. Sem O Holla then was a middle aged man of more than ordinary intelligence. He had a fine face always wreathed in smiles, but with a fearfully deformed body being a hunchback the second that I have ever known amongst the Indians. He was reputed to have a wonderful mesmeric forces and to have dealt largely in occult mysteries."