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There is interest in adapting a curriculum for Umatilla that has been used successfully for Okanagan Salish at the Salish School of Spokane. [7] The Umatilla Dictionary was published in 2014 with the University of Washington Press. The Dictionary documents the language of the Umatilla people east of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington.
Umatilla (/ ˌ j u m ə ˈ t ɪ l ə /, YOO-mə-TIL-ə) is a city in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. The population in 2010 was 6,906, but the city's population includes approximately 2,000 inmates incarcerated at Two Rivers Correctional Institution .
The Cayuse tribe shares a reservation and government in northeastern Oregon with the Umatilla and the Walla Walla tribes as part of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The reservation is located near Pendleton, Oregon, at the base of the Blue Mountains. The Cayuse called themselves the Liksiyu in the Cayuse language. [2]
Their reservation is located near Pendleton, Oregon and the Blue Mountains. A number of places and geographic features have been named after the tribe, such as the Umatilla River, Umatilla County, the town of Umatilla, Florida, and Umatilla National Forest. The impoundment of the Columbia River behind the John Day Dam is called Lake Umatilla.
Sahaptin (suh-HAP-tin), also called Ichishkiin (ih-chis-KEEN; Umatilla: Čiškíin, Yakama: Ichishkíin Sɨ́nwit), is one of the two-language Sahaptian branch of the hypothetical Plateau Penutian family spoken in a section of the northwestern plateau along the Columbia River and its tributaries in southern Washington, northern Oregon, and southwestern Idaho, in the United States; [2] the ...
Umatilla County (/ ˌ juː m ə ˈ t ɪ l ə /) is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. The population of 81,826 ranks it as the 14th largest in Oregon, and largest in Eastern Oregon. [1] Hermiston is the largest city in Umatilla County, but Pendleton remains the county seat. [2]
The largest community is Mission, which is the site of the tribal headquarters as well as the Umatilla Agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Some BIA agency offices serve more than one federally recognized tribe , but the Umatilla Agency exclusively serves the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR).
Umatilla people, a Native American tribe from Oregon; Umatilla Indian Reservation, an Indian reservation in Oregon; Umatilla language, a Native American language from the Plateau Penutian group; Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, a Native American tribal entity in the U.S. state of Oregon