Sanpoil
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Sanpoil |
| Ethnie: | SANPOIL |
| Language: | Okanogan |
| Family: | Southern Interior Salish |
| Stock: | Interior Salish |
| Phylum: | Salishan |
| Macro-Culture: | Northwest Plateau |
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| The Sanpoil were a semi-sedentary hunter/gatherer dialectic group the Northwestern Plateau. They were located on the Nespelem and Sanpoil Rivers and down the Columbia River to below Big Bend.. The Sanpoil never signed a treaty with the United States. 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, and are no longer enumerated separately. |
| Aboriginal Locations (Subdivisions) |
| WA Nespelem (7), Sanpoil (19) |
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| Year | History |
| 1782 | 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 |
| 1855 | Joined Colville |
| 1872 | Colville Reservation established |
| Year | U.S. Population | Source |
| 1700 | 1,700 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1780 | 1,600 - 1,700 | Ray estimate |
| 1800 | 1,300 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1850 | 1,300 | Ray estimate |
| 1900 | 0 | NAHDB calculation (Had confederated into Colville) |
| 2000 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Okanogan |
| Sanpoil Sites: |
| Changing Columbia Basin http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/anth481/sal/crintro1.htm |
| Colville Reservation ... http://www.grandcoulee.com/CCTtab/history.html |
| Coyote's Salmon http://home.earthlink.net/~nativelit/coyote/coyotesa.htm |
| 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 |
| Northwest Plateau Culture and Ethnobotany http://www.fourdir.com/northwest_plateau_culture.htm |
| Okanogan Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=OKA |
| Okanogan Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=OKA |
| Oregon Trail http://linnhistory.peak.org/1853/1853immore.html |
| Thompson, David ... http://www.thefurtrapper.com/david_thompson.htm |
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