Map Showing Indian Tribes Near Ft. Colville, (ca. 1871).

Map Showing Indian Tribes Near Ft. Colville, (ca. 1871).

Washington Territory--Maps, Manuscript<br>Indians of North America--Washington Territory--Maps, Manuscript<br>Colville Indian Reservation--Maps, Manuscript<br>

1 ms. map: hand col., 21 x 27 cm. <br>William Parkhurst Winans worked from 1870 to 1872 as Indian Sub-Agent for the tribes surrounding Fort Colville in Stevens County, Washington Territory. This hand drawn map delineates the area and number of the tribes for which he was hired to serve. Note the numbers written next to the tribe names. These numbers represent the population total for each of the tribes: Methow (311), Okanogan (340), San Poels (538), Spokans (725), Colvills (631), Callispels (420), Lakes (230) and Coeur d' Alenes (154). At the time this map was drawn, the total population of whites living in the Colville Valley area came to approximately less than 400, including women and children. <br> However, Winans and other Colville locals pressed President Grant to change the reservation boundary lines installed in 1871, citing the disturbance that would surely ensue should the whites be forced from their already improved claims. Trusting the settler's testimonials, Grant unwittingly removed the Indians to desolate highlands on the opposite side of their Columbia River homelands and away from their ancestral fishery at Kettle Falls. The Department of Indian Affairs soon became aware of Winans' chicanery, and while the President did not reinstate the original reservation lands, Winans was replaced by Indian Agent John A. Simms in 1872.

Winans, William Parkhurst, 1836-1917.

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ca. 1871

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Is part of William Parkhurst Winans Papers, 1815-1917 http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg147.htm

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United States--Washington (State)--Stevens County
United States--Washington (State)--Colville Valley