Methow
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Methow |
| Ethnie: | METHOW |
| Language: | Columbia-Wenatchi |
| Family: | Southern Interior Salish |
| Stock: | Interior Salish |
| Phylum: | Salishan |
| Macro-Culture: | Northwest Plateau |
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| The Methow were a semi-sedentary hunter/gatherer tribe of the Northwestern Plateau. They lived along the Methow River and ranged to the Okanagon They traded with the first Whites to arrive, but ultimately had conflicts with and suffered from the later settlers. They were finally settled on and confederated into the Colville Reservation. |
| Aboriginal Locations (Subdivisions) |
| WA (?) |
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| 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 |
| 1870 | Located on the east side of the Columbia just below Grand Coulee |
| 1872 | Lake Chelan Earthquake, gases emitted, numerous deaths, no child under age 2 survived |
| 1883 | Treaty with Chief Moses |
| Year | U.S. Population | Source |
| 1700 | 800 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1780 | 800 | Mooney estimate |
| 1800 | 800 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1872 | 316 | US Grant Executive Order |
| 1900 | 0 | NAHDB calculation (Had confederated into Colville) |
| 2000 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Columbia, Wenatchee |
| Methow Sites: |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Executive Order Establishing Columbia Reservation - 1872 http://www.ccrh.org/comm/river/treaties/col.htm |
| Methow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methow_(tribe |
| Methow Valley Pow Wow ... http://www.pnwumc.org/Channels/Channels%20October%202003.pdf |
| Northwest Plateau Culture and Ethnobotany http://www.fourdir.com/northwest_plateau_culture.htm |
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