FDI - Colville

Ethnie:

CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF GRAND RONDE

Member tribes

Tribe	Language	Language Phylum
Coeur d'Alene	Coeur d'Alene	Salishan
Columbia	Columbia-Wenatchi	Salishan
Colville	Okanogan	Salishan
Kalispel	Kalispel-Pend d'Orielle	Salishan
Lake	Kalispel-Pend d'Orielle	Salishan
Methow	Columbia-Wenatchi	Salishan
Nez Perce	Nex Perce	Penutian
Okanogan	Okanogan	Salishan
Sanpoil	Okanogan	Salishan
Spokane	Spokane	Salishan

The Colville were a semi-sedentary hunter/gatherer tribe of the Northwestern Plateau. The lived along the east side of the Columbia River from Fort Okanogan to Point Eaton. They traded with the first Whites to arrive, but ultimately had conflicts with the suffered from the later settlers.

They briefly lived on the Columbia Reservation before they were joined by several tribes other own reservation where they were joined by the above other tribes.

Aboriginal Locations (Subdivisions)

BC, ID, MT, OR, WA

Year	*History*
1781	Smallpox epidemic
1809	David Thompson established Kullyspell House trading post on Lake Pend d'Orielle
1810	David Thompson established Spokane House
1811	David Thompson explored the length of the Columbia River
1841	Influx of Oregon Trail settlers began, conflicts followed
1853	Smallpox epidemic
1855	Major Heller and 100 men routed in battle by a joint force of Yakimas, Columbians, Wanapams, Wallawallas, Palousas, and Spokanes ... "Toppenish Fight"
1858	Hostilities between Col. Steptoe and Coeur d'Alene, Spokane, and Palouse tribes
1872	Colville Reservation established by Executive Order of President Grant, Lake Chelan Earthquake
1883	Treaty with Chief Moses, tribe removed to Colville Reserrvation
1885	Chief Joseph and Nez Perce remove to Colville Reservation
1903	Colville Indian Agent Major Albert M. Anderson is removed from office after the disclosure of several financial misdeeds, including, among other things, forging names on an annuity payment and then keeping the money
1938	Federal government approved the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation’s Constitution and By-Laws

Year	U.S. Population	Source
1700	3,000	NAHDB calculation
1800	2,500	NAHDB calculation
1900	2,000	NAHDB calculation (Tribes had confederated into Colville)
1905	1,645	US Indian Office
1989	3,880	BIA
2000	8,000	NAHDB calculation
2005	8,700	Tribal enrollment

Colville Sites:

Camas Institute http://www.camasinstitute.com/

Changing Columbia Basin http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/anth481/sal/crintro1.htm

Chief Moses ... http://www.ghosttownsusa.com/bttales23.htm

Coeur d'Alene Tribal History http://www.rootsweb.com/~idreserv/cdhist.html

Columbia Treaty with Chief Moses http://www.ccrh.org/comm/river/treaties/moses.htm

Columbia-Wenatchi Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=COL

Columbia-Wenatchi Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=COL

Colville Authors http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/t22

Colville Confederated Tribes Flag http://users.aol.com/donh523/navapage/colville.htm

Colville Confederated Tribes, Historical Overview http://www.anamp.org/nescp_curriculum/colvilleoverview.html

Colville Indian Reservation Chronology http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xaverytime.html

Colville Indian Tribes http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1547.html

Colville Tribe License Plates http://www.worldlicenceplates.com/usa/AI_WACO.html

Colville Tribal Tribune http://tribune.colvilletribes.com/

Colville Tribes http://www.colvilletribes.com/

Cultures Clash: The Land Grab http://www.ccrh.org/comm/moses/cultures1.html

Ethnobotany of Middle Columbia Native Americans http://www.cwnp.org/ethnobot2.html

Kalispel Indians http://www.angelfire.com/id/newpubs/kalispel.html

Lake Chelan and Wapato Point History http://www.wapatopoint.com/history.html

Lake Chelan Earthquake of 1872 http://www.pnsn.org/HIST_CAT/1872/Weston/washington/lkchelan2.html

Lake Indians http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08751a.htm

Moses Lake Columbia-Sinkiuse http://www.ccrh.org/comm/moses/inhab1.html

Nez Perce Indian History http://www.rootsweb.com/~idreserv/nphist.html

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

Okanagan/Colville Language http://www.ydli.org/langs/okanagan.htm

Okanagan Indian Language http://www.native-languages.org/okanagan.htm

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

Sinkiuse Indian Tribe http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/salish/sinkiusehits.htm

Splawn, Andrew J. ,,, http://pw1.netcom.com/~carpentg/aj.html

Spokane Indian Tribe http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1570.html