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The Walla Walla Council (1855) was a meeting in the Pacific Northwest between the United States and sovereign tribal nations of the
Stevens Treaty Council of 1855 centennial records at the Whitman College and Northwest Archives, Whitman College.
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The Walla Walla Council (1855) was a meeting in the Pacific Northwest between the United States and sovereign tribal nations of the Cayuse Cayuse may refer to:
*Cayuse people, a people native to Oregon, United States
*Cayuse language, an extinct language of the Cayuse people
*Cayuse, Oregon, an unincorporated community in the United States
*Cayuse horse, an archaic term for a feral or ...
, Nez Perce, Umatilla, Walla Walla, and Yakama. The council occurred on May 29 – June 11; the treaties signed at this council on June 9 were ratified by the U.S. Senate four years later in 1859
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These treaties codified the constitutional relationship between the people living on the Nez Perce, Umatilla, and Yakama reservations; it was one of the earliest treaties obtained in the Pacific Northwest.
Washington Territory's first governor Isaac I. Stevens
Isaac Ingalls Stevens (March 25, 1818 – September 1, 1862) was an American military officer and politician who served as governor of the Territory of Washington from 1853 to 1857, and later as its delegate to the United States House of Represen ...
secured this treaty, allowing larger portions of the land to be given to the two largest and most powerful tribes: Yakama and Nez Perce; these reservations encompassed most of their traditional hunting grounds. The smaller tribes moved to the smaller of the three reservations. Stevens was able to acquire of land.
See also
* Yakima War (1855–58) *Palouse War
The Coeur d'Alene War of 1858, also known as the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-Pend d'oreille-Paloos War, was the second phase of the Yakima War, involving a series of encounters between the allied Native American tribes of the Skitswish ("Coeur d'Alen ...
(1858)
* Nez Perce War (1877)
Notes
External links
Stevens Treaty Council of 1855 centennial records at the Whitman College and Northwest Archives, Whitman College.
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