Hill Print. Top ways to experience nearby attractions Mountain View E-Bike Experience 69 Recommended Adventure Tours from $128.20 per adult Paddles and Pints: Brewery Tour and Whitewater Rafting on the Wenatchee River 3 Adventure Tours from $239.00 per adult Custom Shuttling 1 from $1,200.00 per group (up to 15) For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.6 males. Entiat is located at 474040N 1201247W / 47.67778N 120.21306W / 47.67778; -120.21306 (47.677640, -120.213149). The harassment carried over into the early summer of 1888, when Thomas J. Cannon (1856-1925), an ordained minister, arrived with his wife, Sarah (1834-1936). Their traditional allies were the kindred Wenatchi, Sinkiuse-Columbia, and Entiat. The fishery was named as a reservation site in the Yakama treaty from the Walla Walla Council (1855), and the boundaries were surveyed and designated by Army personnel in subsequent years. We are greatly honored that Wendell has given us permission to use words from his book , Last Chief Standing , to tell the story of the Entiat Tribe from his tribe's perspective. Dedicated packing sheds and warehouses sprouted up, and when the railroad came through in 1914 fruit warehouses and cold-storage facilities were built adjacent to the tracks. Lucy Friedlander Covington (1910-1982) was born in Nespelem on the Colville Indian Reservation and was a lifelong advocate for Colville tribal rights and land, becoming well-known and nationally respected for her fight against the federal policy of termination. In 1868 two travelers from what is now Ellensburg encountered a dark-skinned man called Big Antoine, possibly a former employee of the Hudson's Bay Company and of Hawaiian origin, washing for gold near the Entiat River. Orientation. In 1915 a second fire threatened the "first" town of Entiat and only six businesses survived. The median age was 33 years. Ittiwan. They have six children, six grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. After its first relocation, the town grew slowly. The Confederated Tribes have over 9,000 descendants from 12 aboriginal tribes. In 1898 he traded it to another early settler, Frank E. Knapp (1868-1931), for a Columbia River ferry that Knapp had established to the north of the Entiat River. The history of the P'Squosa Tribe. With the exception of a scattering of Chinese miners and Big Antoine, it appears that until the mid-1880s the region was inhabited exclusively by several Indian tribes, notably the Wenatchi, Entiat, Columbia, and Chelan. The terrain along the river's length ranges from a narrow, steep, glaciated valley in the upper reaches to a broader U-shaped valley through the middle and lower stretches. They traveled over this large area in an annual circuit to gather food. She uses pictorial art to tell stories, and her drawings as a plateau style ledger artist are richly influenced by a combination of her tribal history and traditions. As more settlers arrived, other needs were met. E.P. John Detwiler and his family left the area within a year, but Lewis Detwiler farmed his homestead for about a decade. There were 495 housing units at an average density of 234.6 per square mile (90.6/km2). Territorial boundaries shifted frequently in the Plateau Region, as tribes competed for the best hunting grounds. The Entiat Improvement Company was the major commercial center at that time. By this time Chilcosahaskt had come to accept their presence, and one history notes that he was "naturally of a good disposition, although the same cannot be said of his wife" (Hull, 445). Raymond Finley, of the Kalispel Tribe of Indians, dances. Throughout my school years, there was a lack of Native American history taught. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. The individually distinct Wenatchi bands, are the following: They were closely related by language with the Entiat and Chelan peoples and through marriage and culture with Upper Yakima bands. Chief Chilcosahaskt had kept several of Big Antoine's peach trees, and in 1893 William F. Cannon (1854-1928) planted the valley's first commercial orchard. #101, 3535 Old Okanagan HwyWestbank, BC V4T 3L7, T: 250.707.0095 | F: 250.707.0166Toll Free: 1.866.662.9609, Syilx Child and Family Declaration Information Sheet, axa i sccuntt i tl xaxitt xl i nqsiltt Family Declaration, Columbia River Salmon Reintroduction Initiative, The Syilx Indian Residential School Experience, Indian Residential Schools Impacts & Syilx Resilience, snklip cxuysts i qaqxlx How Coyote Brought the Salmon, ksxntk (Okanagan Lake) Responsibility Planning Initiative. Proudly created with Wix.com. The town's last move, in the early 1960s, presented unique challenges for the community. The population was 1,326 at the 2020 census. Interestingly, the first log house in Entiat of the sort that early homesteaders would build belonged to Chilcosahaskt. He learned the power of writing down the stories that were passed down through the generations from his parents. Little more than 40 years after its previous move, Entiat would once again have to relocate, and this time it would be both more complicated and beset by controversy. It then passed through other hands until, in January 1909, it was purchased by the Entiat Townsite Company. He was never allowed to move back to his homeland. The land is currently incorporated into Wenatchee National Forest at the confluence of the Wenatchee River and Icicle Creek near Leavenworth. The Entiat indians tribe is a Native American tribe. Methow, Entiat, Wenatchi, Chelan, Moses-Columbia, Okanogan, Lakes, Colville, San Poil, Nespelem, Nez Perce, Palus. Lewis Detwiler was well-traveled, having lived in Wisconsin, Kansas, Wyoming, and Montana before arriving in Douglas County in 1883 and claiming a homestead south of Orondo. Most of the original buildings were razed or moved to a location north of the original town. The Entiat lived in the Entiat River Valley. . The town's first school (although not the first in the valley), named the Harris School after its first teacher, was opened in 1899, and its small building was expanded in 1905 to accommodate a high school. But its people persevered, and between 1970 and 2020 the town's population more than tripled. 116 years to be exact. It is the largest, longest, and at nearly 1,500 feet, deepest lake in Washington and the third deepest in America. In 1892, to the chagrin of Orondo and other nearby towns on the east bank of the Columbia River, the Great Northern Railway built a bridge to cross the river at Rock Island, about 10 miles south of today's Wenatchee. The Ittiwan people, also spelled Etiwan, [1] were a Native American tribe, who lived near present-day Goose Creek. The first town to be called Entiat was built on land Chilcosahaskt had owned, and years after his death his relatives almost ended up owning the site of the second. The Wenatchi tribe was far more isolated prior to the arrival of the horse, but afterward they adopted many of the traditions and style of dress of the Plains Indians and were closely allied with the Spokane tribes by the time white settlers arrived. As of the census of 2000, there were 957 people, 342 households, and 244 families residing in the city. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL. The Confederated Tribes have over 9,000 descendants from 12 aboriginal tribes. A number of reservations were established, only to be later altered (almost always diminished) or rescinded. This page was last edited on 23 November 2022, at 00:30. Entiat Tribe Exhibit coming to the Museum on Opening Day, Saturday, May 27, 2023 Updated: Mar 1 Last year, we invited Wendell George to join us at the Entiat Museum. His great-grandfather, Chilcosahaskt, was Chief of the Entiat tribe, his grandfather, Lahompt, started the first family cattle ranch and his dad, Moses, was elected to the first Tribal Council. The Land of the Entiat The Entiat River begins just below Mount Fernow's Entiat Glacier and flows approximately 50 miles to its confluence with the Columbia River. A large number of place names, including many of the mountains, were given by Albert H. Sylvester. The non-Native history of Entiat properly begins in Douglas County, where in 1887 Dr. John Brown Smith (1837-1917) filed the first plat for the town of Orondo on the opposite (east) bank of the Columbia. We proposed to him a new exhibit about the Entiat Tribe. John Harmelt refused to sell the Wenatchi rights to a reservation and remained in the Wenatchee area until his death. WikiMatrix. As I had mentioned before, I am a member of the Wenatchi Tribe, born and raised here in Wenatchee. Wapato John's first wife, Timish, died after the birth of their son, Charles, and he then married her older sister, Smee-mee-hulks (Madeline). Sometimes the Chelan (lmxx - "People at the Deep Water, i.e. The earliest crop was a wide variety of apples, which the homesteaders would pick, sort, pack, and send off to market. The Lakes territory centered around the upper Columbia River, possibly reaching as far north as the Big Bend of the Columbia, north of Revelstoke, British Columbia. When the dam was complete, the site of the second town of Entiat, which had grown up along the Columbia's shore just north of the mouth of the Entiat River, would be inundated by the resulting reservoir, named Lake Entiat. This first town to be called Entiat grew slowly, but had two failings -- it was not directly on the planned route of the Great Northern Railway, and it had an inordinate susceptibility to fires. In 1906 the Entiat Telephone and Telegraph Company was incorporated by Frank E. Knapp and two partners, and by 1908 its lines ran 15 miles up the Entiat Valley. The Sinkiuse tribes populated the northern portion of Eastern Washington. This section of the Columbia is known as Lake Entiat. Cleveland Kamiakin was a young man when the construction began on the Grand Coulee Dam. Get your membership today and you will receive as a Thank You, * A pack of Historic Photos of Entiat postcards, All members are invited to the ECHS Annual Opening Day Event, All members will have lending privileges to the new Museum Library, Please include your name, address, email and check, ( and optionally your phone ) in your request for membership, 2022 by Entiat Historical Society. My great-grandfather, Chief Chilcosahaskt, remained at the Entiat Valley and my grandfather Lahompt (Chief Koxit George) was the first of our family to move to the Reservation. Crossing between the glaciers and cliffs on the crest of the mountains, they descended through the tall forests to the land of the Skagit tribes. The Entiat Valley was difficult to reach and did not see permanent non-Native settlement until the late 1880s. In his absence, Erwin told the Yakama tribal leaders that the Wenatchi had sold their land rights, and the Yakama sold their share for $20,000.[3][2]. The Entiat probably had a small- er population than neighboring tribes. . Trivia. In 1889 Cannon established the first water-powered sawmill on the Entiat River, and he built the community's first frame house. Read more. The Great Northern Railway bridged the Columbia River south of Wenatchee in 1892, and more than two decades later ran its line north along the river's west bank, securing Entiat's continued existence and at least modest prosperity. Some sources report that he had closer ties to the Lakes than the Colville. His great-grandfather, Chilcosahaskt, was Chief of the Entiat tribe, his grandfather, Lahompt, started the first family cattle ranch and his dad, Moses, was elected to the first Tribal Council. The loss was total, but partially insured, and the sawmill was back in business the following year. The Entiat are members of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, a federally recognized tribe. Cheryl began her artistic career in 1995 and attended the prestigious Institute of American Indian arts in Santa Fe. E.P. Entiat would survive, although its recovery would be slow.