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The Umatilla are a Sahaptin-speaking Native American tribe who traditionally inhabited the Columbia Plateau region of the northwestern United States, along the Umatilla and Columbia rivers. [ 1 ] The Umatilla people are called Imatalamłáma , a Umatilla person is called Imatalamłá (with orthographic ł representing IPA /ɬ/ ).
Weyíiletpuu is a dialect of the Nez Perce language as used by the Cayuse people of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. [ 17 ] Today six language teachers are running programs at the Nixyaawii Community School , which has offered Umatilla, Walla Walla and Nez Perce language classes for the last decade.
The people are a Sahaptin-speaking tribe that traditionally inhabited the interior Columbia River region of the present-day northwestern United States. For centuries before the coming of European settlers, the Walla Walla, consisting of three principal bands, occupied the territory along the Walla Walla River (named for them) and along the confluence of the Snake and Columbia River rivers in a ...
Map of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (in green), east of Pendleton The reservation has a land area of 271.047 square miles (702.01 km 2 ) and a tribal population of 2,927 as of the 2000 census . In addition, some 300 Native Americans from other regional tribes and 1,500 non-natives live on the reservation. [ 1 ]
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]
The Tamástslikt Cultural Institute is a museum and research institute located on the Umatilla Indian Reservation near Pendleton in eastern Oregon. It is the only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail. The institute is dedicated to the culture of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla tribes of Native Americans.
The fledgling Oregon press provided propaganda that rationalized the war against Native Americans. One paper opined on November 10, 1855, that "The Indians are ignorant, abject, and debased by nature, whose minds are as incapable of instruction as their bodies are of labor....
[6] [7] Some tribes (such as the Umatilla of Oregon) referred to them as the "Stick Indians," while the Nez Perce called them Itśte-ya-ha. [8] Spirit Mound, reportedly home of some Little People. It is located within Spirit Mound Historic Prairie in South Dakota.