FDI - Cayuse

The Cayuse obtained horses early and were a semi-sedenatry hunter/gatherer tribe. They were located in Oregon, with their range to the head of the Wallawalla, Umatilla, and Grande Ronde Rivers.

They were first friendly to the White settlers, but later started what became the Cayuse War over blame for measles. Some later confederated into the Nez Perce, though most settled on the Umatilla Reservation.

Year	*History*
1780	Molala with tribe, soon fissioned
1811	David Thompson explored the length of the Columbia River
1838	Mission established by Marcus Whitman near present Whitman
1841	Influx of Oregon Trail settlers began, conflicts followed
1847	Measles epidemic, Cayuse murdered Whitman (believed him to be the cause of the epidemic) and destroyed his mission; Cayuse War began.
1851	Partially merged with Nez Perce
1855	Involved in Yakima War, joined in the treaty which created the Umatilla Reservation
1878	Involved in Bannock War

Cayuse Sites:

Cayuse http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/northamerica/cayuse.html

Cayuse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayuse

Cayuse Authors http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/t140

Cayuse and Lewis and Clack http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/record_tribes_061_13_20.html

Cayuse and Other ... http://www.nps.gov/whmi/newsite/cayuse.htm

Cayuse History http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/oregon/chistory.html

Cayuse Indian History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/waiilatpuan/cayuseindianhist.htm

Cayuse Indian Language http://www.native-languages.org/cayuse.htm

Cayuse Indian Pony http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/horses/cayuseindian/

Cayuse Indian War http://bluebook.state.or.us/cultural/history/history11.htm

Cayuse Indian War http://gesswhoto.com/cayuse8.html

Cayuse Indian War http://gesswhoto.com/cayuse.html

Cayuse Indian Woman Eat No Meat http://boundless.uoregon.edu/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/Moorhouse-wk&CISOPTR=114&CISORESTMP=&CISOVIEWTMP=

Cayuse Woman on Horse http://www.imageenvision.com/photo/0003-0702-2115-5434.html

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation http://www.umatilla.nsn.us/history.html

Fourteen Die in Whitman Massacre ... http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5192

Historic Cayuse Photos http://www.nps.gov/whmi/history/moor.htm

Indian Council in the Valley of the Walla Walla, Lawrence Kip, 1855 http://www.ccrh.org/comm/river/treaties/kipp.htm

Kamiakin and the Yakima Indian War of 1855 http://members.aol.com/Gibson0817/ywar.htm

Northeastern Oregon Natives ... http://www.chenowith.k12.or.us/tech/subject/social/natam_or/northeast.html

Northwest Plateau Culture and Ethnobotany http://www.fourdir.com/northwest_plateau_culture.htm

Oregon Trail http://linnhistory.peak.org/1853/1853immore.html

Sovereignty in Tribal Government http://www.trailtribes.org/umatilla/sovereignty-and-tribal-government.htm

Tamastslikt Cultural Institute http://www.tamastslikt.com/press.asp?id=38

Turtle Island Storyteller Rosa Yearout http://turtleislandstorytellers.net/tis_idaho/transcript_r_yearout.htm

Two Cayuse Indian Girls http://boundless.uoregon.edu/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/Moorhouse-wk&CISOPTR=114&CISORESTMP=&CISOVIEWTMP=

Two Cayuse Women http://boundless.uoregon.edu/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/Moorhouse-wk&CISOPTR=133&CISORESTMP=&CISOVIEWTMP=

Whitman Massacre http://www.oregonpioneers.com/whitman1.htm

Whitman Mission Captures History http://archive.tri-cityherald.com/travel/stories/backyard/whitman.html

Whitman, Narcissa and Marcus http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h317.html

Wright, Harrison, emigrant 1844 http://www.co.linn.or.us/Sheriff/Home/LCSOhome1.history.SheriffBio.wheeler.htm

Young Cayuse Woman Anna Coyote http://boundless.uoregon.edu/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/Moorhouse-wk&CISOPTR=107&CISORESTMP=&CISOVIEWTMP=

Young-chief Bronze http://americanart.si.edu/t2go/1lw/index-noframe.html?/t2go/1lw/1985.76.5.html

*Ethnie:*	CAYUSE (TE--TAW-KEN)
*Language:*	Cayuse
*Family:*	Cayuse
*Stock:*	Cayuse
*Phylum:*	Penutian
*Macro-Culture:*	Northwestern Plateau

Year	U.S. Population	Source
1700	500	NAHDB calculation
1780	500
1800	500	NAHDB calculation
1900	400	NAHDB calculation
1904	404	Officially reported
1910	298	Census
1923	337	US Indian Office
1989	350	NAHDB estimate using BIA data
2000	400	NAHDB calculation