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12 Ind. Cl. Corm. 301
3r. Chalfant presented a nap of that portion of Royce Area 364
claimed by the Salish tribes (Def. Ex. 67) cogezher with acetate overlays,
oce of which was Defendant's Exhibit No. 67-G on which he outlined the
territory which he considered was used and occupied by the Wenatchee
and the Columbia tribes. He also located permanenr village sites,
temporary village sites, and early historical village sites. With respect
to the territories which ke outlinzd C5alfast testified that "I have not
intended to represent a boundary in the s29se of territorial own2rship
that would imply exclusive ownership, that is, exclusive use and occupancy,
on the part of the resident group; rather, these lines represent the
maximum area for which there is total agreernect in the framework of the
anthropological and historical literature on thzse people for the area
that the aboriginal Columbia on the one hand and the aboriginal Wenatchee
on the other hand occupied and ctilized." (Tr. 5&8) Chalfant did not
include areas for either the Chelan or Entiat for the reason that he did
not believe that they were parties to the Yakima Treaty. However, he
testified that the land used by both of those tribes was to the north
with the Entiat using and occupying the territory within the Entiat River
drainage and the Chelan using and occupying the territory within the
Chelan drainage system.
The Wenatchee area of occupation includes the drainage system of .
the Wenatchee River, extending to the west to the Cascade Mountain range,
to the north to the range line becween the Entiat and Wenatchee River,.
to the south to the Wenatchee mountain range dividing the drainage of
the Wenatchee River from the upper Yakima River, and to the east to the