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7,587 people live on the reservation (2000 census), including both Colville tribe members and non-tribe members. Most live either in small communities or in rural settings. Approximately half of the Confederated Tribes' enrolled members live on or near the reservation. According to the Tribes records in 2015, they have 9,500 enrolled members. [4]
The Colville language or N̓x̌ʷʔiłpcən is one of six dialects of Colville-Okanagan historically spoken by the "Syilx peoples" including Northern Okanagan and Southern/Lower Okanagan (Sinkaietk), Methow, Sanpoil (Nesilextcl'n), Nespelem (sometimes considered a Sanpoil subtribe), Colville, and Sinixt (Senijextee/Arrow Lakes Band) peoples.
Some of the Colvin clan moved to Scotland, Ireland and France. The Domesday Book of 1086 records Gilbert's descendants as holding lands directly from the Crown in Yorkshire, specifically Arncliffe where the family would remain prominent for many centuries. Later a branch of the Colvilles also established themselves at Newton in the Isle of Ely ...
In 1513 Robert Colville of Hilton was killed at the Battle of Flodden. [2] His son was Sir James Colville of Ochiltree who in 1527 was appointed to the office of Comptroller of the Royal Household. [2]
The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Okanagan: sx̌ʷy̓ʔiłpx sqlxʷúlaʔxʷ) [1] is the federally recognized tribe that controls the Colville Indian Reservation, which is located in northeastern Washington, United States.
The Colvilles' ownership of the barony of Cleish is recorded from 1537, when it was granted to Robert Colville by his father, Sir James Colville of Easter Wemyss. [1] The tower is described as "a fine example of a 16th-century tower house", [3] and was extended and heightened in the early 17th century. Upper dormers bear the date 1600. [3]
The Colvilles had two sons and one daughter and lived in Hampshire. [7] Elizabeth Harriet Colville (born 3 December 1952); goddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Winston Churchill. [8] She has served as Lady-in-Waiting to The Princess Royal since 1990. She married David James Bowes-Lyon in 1976, and had issue.
It was originally a farm owned by a certain Koli, a Scandinavian settler in the Middle Ages.It shares the same etymology as the other Colleville in Normandy. During the conquest of England by William the Conqueror or following it, Gilbert de Colleville was given lands in Devon England, it was from this Knight that the modern de Colville/Colvin family would develop, also including Clan Colville ...