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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SAHAPTINS-NEZ PERCYS. ?? (v 935. Colorado. -r- J¿ 787. Sappix and Son. í V /, f jpY).. Vt 788. Chu. 789. Kanosh. 790-6, 965-74. Miscellaneous groups, all copies ; a portion of the original Blackmore collection. 955-9. Ute Encampment on the plains near Denver. 960-3. Camp Scenes among the Utes at Los Pinos. 520. Group of Peah and his head men. VI. SAHAPTINS. The Sahaptin family inhabit the country south of the Salish, between the Cascade and Bitter Root Mountains, reaching southward, in general terms, to the forty-fifth parallel, but very irregularly bounded by the Shoshone tribes of the California group. Of its nations, the Nez Percés, or Sahaptins proper, dwell on the Clearwater and its branches, and on the Snake about the forks. The Palouse occupy the region north of the Snake, about the mouth of the Palouse ; the south banks of the Columbia and Snake, near their confluence, and the banks of the Lower Walla Walla, are occupied by the Walla Wallas. The Takimas and Klikelats inhabit the region north of the Dalles, between the Cascade Range and the Columbia. The natives of Oregon, east of the Cascade Range, who have not usually been inclnded in the Sahaptin family, are divided somewhat arbitrarily into the Wascoes, extending from the mountains eastward to John Day River, and the Cayuses from this river across the Blue Mountains to the Grande Ronde. 1. NEZ PERCÉS. The Nez Percés, or the Sahaptin proper, inhabit Idaho and portions of Oregon and Washington. They style themselves Numepo, but Lewis and Clarke called them the Chopunnish. The origin of their present name is buried in obscurity. Early in the present century they were estimated to number 8, 000; and in 1836, when a mission was established among them, about 4, 000. In the Oregon Indian war mo
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