The Skinpah (also known as the Skeen, Skin, or Shutes) were a
Sahaptin
The Sahaptin are a number of Native American tribes who speak dialects of the Sahaptin language. The Sahaptin tribes inhabited territory along the Columbia River and its tributaries in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Sahaptin-s ...
people living along the northern bank of the Columbia River in what is now south-central
Washington
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. They were first recorded as the Eneeshurs in 1805 by
Lewis and Clark
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, with the first reference to the Skeen name in the form of an 1847
Paul Kane
Paul Kane (September 3, 1810 – February 20, 1871) was an Irish-born Canadian painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans in the Columbia Dis ...
painting titled ''Mancemuckt, Chief of the Skeen''. Their chief village, Sk'in, was located directly across the Columbia from
Celilo Falls
Celilo Falls (Wyam, meaning "echo of falling water" or "sound of water upon the rocks," in several native languages) was a tribal fishing area on the Columbia River, just east of the Cascade Mountains, on what is today the border between the U.S. ...
, adjacent to the
Wishram.
They were signatories of the
Yakama Treaty of 1855
The Yakama are a Native American tribe with nearly 10,851 members, based primarily in eastern Washington state.
Yakama people today are enrolled in the federally recognized tribe, the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation. Their Ya ...
,
[{{Cite web , title=Treaty with the Yakama, 1855 {{! GOIA , url=https://goia.wa.gov/tribal-government/treaty-yakama-1855 , access-date=2022-10-25 , website=goia.wa.gov] and were moved onto the
Yakama Reservation. As a result, the Skinpah are no longer recognizable as a separate tribal group.
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Native American tribes in Washington (state)
Yakama