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Kamiakin was of mixed Nez Perce, Spokane and Yakama ancestry. His father Ki-yi-yah was the son of a Nez Perce father and a Spokane mother. His mother was Yakama. In 1825 Kamiakin married Sal-kow, also a Yakama, whose father Te-i-as and grandfather Weowikt were leaders in the tribe. [1] Kamiakin later married Colestah, also a Yakama.
Kamiakin's initiative to avoid conflict with the settlers proved fruitless, and Kamiakin became a leader during the Yakima War of the 1850s. The irrigated area was about 1,300 feet (400 m) long, remnants of which remain visible and are still irrigated. [3] Kamiakin's Gardens were placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 22 ...
Colestah and Kamiakin moved to the Palouse River camp, between today's St. John and Endicott in 1860, where his family followed its "seasonal rounds of root-digging, berry-gathering and salmon fishing." Colestah had a new son, Tomolow, with Kamiakin in 1864, but then she became sick, and died in 1865. [8]
Chief Kamiakin occupied the center with Palus and Yakama. On the Indian left were Kamiakin's nephew, Qualchan, with additional Yakamas, and Stellam, a chief of the Schitsu'umsh, with warriors of his tribe. On the right were the Spokan chief Polatkin and members of his tribe. [12]
Kamiakin’s Scot Pollard in the early 1990s, was a 7-foot dunking machine. Josh Woodard these past four years at Richland High, he was a guy you’d keep an eye on for the defensive steal, the ...
Kamiakin and its variants Comiaken, Kamiakan, and Ka-mi-akin, may refer to: Chief Kamiakin (1800–1877), chief and war-leader of the Yakama Chief Kamiakin Elementary School , in Sunnyside, Washington
The Mid-Columbia is down to two football teams left in the WIAA Washington state playoffs. Kamiakin defeated Mt. Si 8-6 last Saturday in North Bend in the 4A state quarterfinals, while Royal ...
Three times it happened: a fumbled football back at the 15; a shanked punt of 5 yards, giving Kamiakin the ball at Hermiston’s 11; and another short punt that enabled the Braves to start a drive ...