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12 Ind. C1. Corm. 301
Dalles. Along the northern bank of the Columbia River he identified the
Wish-hams, Click-a-hut and Skien. Their populations had been greatly
reduced in 1854 by smallpox epidemics. He stated that the Wish-hams,
Click-a-huts, and Skiens claimed that portion of the district lying along
the Columbia River from the mouth of the Yakima River to a point three
miles below the Dalles.
Hazard Stevens
42. Hazard Stevens, the son of Governor Stevens; accompanied his
father on the railroad exploration and was present at the Walla Walla
Treaty Council. In describing all of the Indian tribes of the Upper . .
>-.= Columbia area, Stevens wrote "Each tribe possessed its own country, clearly:
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defined by well-known natural boundaries, within whose limits their
wanderings were restrained, save when they 'went to buffalo,' or attended
some grand council or horse-race with a neighboring tribe." (Pet. Ex. 438),
p. 16) In writing a biography of his father he reported that the Palus
lived on the Palouse River, on the north side of the Snake and east of
the Columbia.
A. J. Splawn
43. A. J. Splawn was one of the best informed early settlers having
spent the greater part of his life in the central part of the present.
State of Washington, He moved to Klikitat Valley in 1860 and went to
Yakima County in 1861 where he was actively engaged in the cattle business
for 35 years. In his book Ka-mi-akin, Last Hero of the Yakimas he recorded
the information which he had gathered from his years of close personal
contact with the Indians within the subject area. His writings were relied