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Wishram High School
Wishram may refer to: * Wasco-Wishram, two Native American tribes from Oregon * Wasco-Wishram language, a dialect of Upper Chinook, a Chinookan language *Wishram, Washington, a census-designated place in the U.S. state of Washington *Wishram village, formerly the largest village occupied by the Wishram tribe. {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasco-Wishram
Wasco-Wishram are two closely related Chinook Indian tribes from the Columbia River in Oregon. Today the tribes are part of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs living in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Oregon and Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation living in the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington.Pritzer, Barry M. ''A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000: 286-7. (retrieved through Google Books, 9 April 2009) History The Wishram and Wasco are Plateau tribes that are closely related and share many cultural aspects of the Northwest Coast tribes. They lived along the banks of the Columbia River, near The Dalles. The Dalles were a prime trading location, and the tribes benefited from a vast trade network. United States military expansion in the 1800s brought European diseases, which took a great toll on the Wasco and Wishram populations. Both tribes were forced by the United States in 1855 to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasco-Wishram Language
Upper Chinook, endonym Kiksht, also known as Columbia Chinook, and Wasco-Wishram after its last surviving dialect, is a recently extinct language of the US Pacific Northwest. It had 69 speakers in 1990, of whom 7 were monolingual: five Wasco and two Wishram. In 2001, there were five remaining speakers of Wasco. The last fully fluent speaker of Kiksht, Gladys Thompson, died in July 2012. She had been honored for her work by the Oregon Legislature in 2007. Two new speakers were teaching Kiksht at the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in 2006. The Northwest Indian Language Institute of the University of Oregon formed a partnership to teach Kiksht and Numu in the Warm Springs schools. Audio and video files of Kiksht are available at the Endangered Languages Archive. The last fluent speaker of the Wasco-Wishram dialect was Madeline Brunoe McInturff, and she died on 11 July 2006 at the age of 91. Dialects * Multnomah, once spoken on Sauvie Island and in the Portland area in northwester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wishram, Washington
Wishram is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Klickitat County, Washington, United States. The population was 342 at the 2010 census, up from 213 at the 2000 census. The site of the historic Celilo Falls is nearby. The community was originally named "Fallbridge"; it was changed to "Wishram" to honor the Wishram tribe of Native Americans. The Dalles Dam, downstream on the Columbia River, was completed in 1957, and began filling Lake Celilo. The original fishing village near this location was inundated. Geography Wishram is located in southern Klickitat County, sitting on the north bank of the Columbia River at (45.661198, -120.958788). State Route 14 runs east–west through the community, traveling west towards Vancouver and Dallesport and east towards Maryhill; it intersects with two U.S. highways that provide access to Oregon via bridges over the Columbia River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Wishram CDP has a total area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
