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Warm Springs Tribes

Ethnie: WARM SPRINGS TRIBES

Member Tribes	Tribe	Language	Phylum
	Northern Paiute	Western Numic	Azrec-Tanoan
	Tenino	Tenino	Macro-Penutian
	Tygh	Tenino	Macro-Penutian
	Wasco	Upper Chinookan	Macro-Penutian
*Macro-Culture:*	Great Basin/Northwestern

Warm Springs was first settled soon after the Treaty of 1855 by Tygh and Wasco, as well as Tenino remnants. The Northern Paiutes arrived in 1879. The Three primary tribes finally organized as the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in 1937.

Aboriginal Locations (Villages)

OR Northern Paiute (# of bands ?), Tenino (3 villages), Tygh ( ? villages), Wasco (20 villages or fishing stations)

Oregon Present Locations

OR Warm Springs Reservation, Warm Springs (Watlala) http://www.warmsprings.com/

Year	*History*
1855	Treaty if 1855, Settled on Warm Springs Reservation
1879	Joined by 38 Northern Paiutes expelled from Yakima Reservation in Washington for their participation in Bannock War
1937	Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs founded
1942	Warm Springs Lumber Company founded on reservation
1957	Received 4 million dollars for destruction of fishing grounds
1996	Indian Head Casino opened

Year

U.S. Population

Source

1700

0

NAHDB calculation

1800

0

NAHDB calculation

1855

2,500

NAHDB calculation
1,100	Tenino
500	Tygh
900	Wasco

1879

38

Paiute joined reservation from Yakima Reservation after Bannock War

1900

3,000

NAHDB calculation

2000

4,771

U of Chicago Health Services

2000

4,800

NAHDB calculation

Warm Springs Sites:

Basket Weaver Harvest Moon ... http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues00/Co07152000/CO_07152000_Basketweaver.htm

Bicentennial Bash ... http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=14936

Biscuit Root http://food.oregonstate.edu/native/biscuit.html

Black Butte and Green Ridge Story http://www.orww.org/B&B_Complex/Repeat_Photography_Grid/Black_Butte/Indian_Story.html

Buried Treasure: Archeologists ... http://www.tdn.com/articles/2004/12/11/area_news/news03.txt

Capitalizing the Chinook http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/InNews/fishnews0632004.htm

Central Oregon http://www.pacifier.com/~shm/Local2/highdesert.html

Columbia River Treaty Tribes http://www.critfc.org/oldsite/text/history.htm

Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs http://www.npaihb.org/profiles/tribal_profiles/Oregon/Confederated%20Tribes%20of%20Warm%20Springs%20Indians%20Profile.htm

Courtney-Gold, Pat, Basket http://wwol.inre.asu.edu/gold.html

Courtney-Gold, Pat, Basket Weaver http://www.sba.gov/or/warmsprings.html

Courtney-Gold, Pat - Childhood http://www.alternativevoices.org/When_Pat_Courtney_Gold_was_a_child.html

Coyote Places the Stars http://home.online.no/~arnfin/native/lore/leg219.htm

Elk Spirit of Lost Lake http://home.online.no/~arnfin/native/lore/leg238.htm

Florendo, James, Academic Advisor http://duckhenge.uoregon.edu/io/popup?id=8

Legend of the Chinook Indians http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/stuproj/ametf99/wenzl/chinook.html

Legends of Vancouver http://www.robirda.com/chinooktalk.html

Lewis and Clark Bicentennial http://www.astoria-usa.com/lewis-clark.html

Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Mural http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/lewisclark/painting.html

Littleleaf, Charles, Flautist http://www.littleleaf.com/littleleafbio.htm

Native American Basketry http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/baskets/artists/plateau.html

Northern Paiute Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=PAO

Northern Paiute Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=PAO

Northwest: Chinookan Culture and Ethnobotany http://www.fourdir.com/northwest_chinookan_culture.htm

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

Oregon Leg of Famed Expedition ... http://online.statesmanjournal.com/sp_section_article.cfm?i=54972&s=2158

Round Twined Root-gathering Basket http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/Lewis_and_Clark/basket.html

Tygh Band Protests ... http://carbon.cudenver.edu/public/fwc/Issue10/Action_Alerts/tygh.html

Tenino Indians http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/record_tribes_066_13_28.html

Tenino Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=WAR

Tenino Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=WAR

Tenino Woman Recognized as a Master Storyteller

Upper Chinookan http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=WAC

Warm Springs Constitution and By-Laws http://www.tribalresourcecenter.org/ccfolder/warm_springs_constandbylaws.htm

Warm Springs Flag http://users.aol.com/donh523/navapage/warmsp.htm

Warm Springs Tribe http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1539.html

Wasco Authors http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/t229

Waso Indian http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/record_tribes_065_13_32.html

Wasco Indian Tribe http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/chinook/wascoindianhist.htm

Wasco-Wishram and Watlala http://www.nps.gov/joda/lee/lee.htm

Wasco-Wishram Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=WAC

Wasco-Wishran Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=WAC

Who Were Those Indians? http://enthuz.com/friends/family/skamania/native/natives.html

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