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12 Ind. C1. Corn. 301
particuler portion of the vzlley, of one of the sinall
latsral streams. This locality was regarded as their
horns, but was occupied, as a rule, only in winter; for
during the rzrnainder of the year they were semi-nomadic.
In the early spring tky repaired to t3e fisheries in
tkz larger river, and fishing, hnting, and root-digging
coctinued until midsummer, when they moved i9t3 the
rnocrrains to gather berries. -As autmn approached they
rzturned to ths valleys for the late fishhg, which continued
u~til cold wzathzr forced the= into winter quarters.
(Pet. Ex. 561, pp. 3-4)
C~r.2is repcxted that a grozp of bands which Ee cazned the Sinkiuse
were geogrtphically associated in the region between the Columbia River
aad that series of de2ressions in ths earth's crust begicning in the
Grand Coulee e~ld contin~irrg in a nilmbzr of small closed lakes, the
lower courss of Crab Czezk, Moses Lake and the sink of Crab Creek.
1) These Indians, he stated, were variously kzown as tke Columbias, the
Isle de Pierre (referring to Rock Island in the Colmbia River below
the mocth of the Wena~chi), Moses Band, and Sinkiuse. Curtis identified
seven bands within this group and identifizd each with a separate village
sLte on the Caiumbia between the nout5 of Crab Creek, on the south,
and a site a short dlstance above the mouth of the Wenztchee on the north.
Curtis wrote that the Wenatchee were a group of snall tribes whose
territory extended froin Lake Chelan to the Wenatchee River. Within
this group he enumerated six bands which were located as follows:
(I) At the outlet of Lake Chelan,
(2) Aloag Entiat Creek,
(3) On the Columbiz River between Entiat Creek ar.d Wenatchee River,
(4) At the mouth or' the Wenatchee River,