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Cayuse People
The Cayuse are a Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribe in what is now the state of Oregon in the United States. The Cayuse tribe shares a Umatilla Indian Reservation, reservation and government in northeastern Oregon with the Umatilla people, Umatilla and the Walla Walla people, Walla Walla tribes as part of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The reservation is located near Pendleton, Oregon, at the base of the Blue Mountains (Pacific Northwest), Blue Mountains. The Cayuse called themselves the Liksiyu in the Cayuse language. Originally located in present-day northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington (state), Washington, they lived adjacent to territory occupied by the Nez Perce people, Nez Perce and had close associations with them. Like other Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau, the Cayuse placed a high premium on warfare and were skilled horsemen. They developed the Cayuse horse, Cayuse pony. The Cayuse ceded most of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cayuse Lang
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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 low-quality horse or pony * OH-6 "Cayuse", a military observation helicopter * Cayuse Five, five Cayuse who were hanged for murder * Cayuse Hills, mountain range in Montana * Cayuse Pass, mountain pass in the Cascade Mountains in the state of Washington See also *''Cayoosh Flat'' is also the old name for the town of Lillooet, British Columbia Lillooet () is a district municipality in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, Squamish-Lillooet region of southwestern British Columbia. The town is on the west shore of the Fraser River immediately north of the Seton River mouth. On British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deschutes River (Oregon)
The Deschutes River ( ) in central Oregon is a major tributary of the Columbia River. The river provides much of the drainage on the eastern side of the Cascade Range in Oregon, gathering many of the tributaries that descend from the drier, eastern flank of the mountains. The Deschutes provided an important route to and from the Columbia for Native Americans for thousands of years, and then in the 19th century for pioneers on the Oregon Trail. The river flows mostly through rugged and arid country, and its valley provides a cultural heart for central Oregon. Today the river supplies water for irrigation and is popular in the summer for whitewater rafting and fishing. The Deschutes flows generally north, as do several other large Oregon tributaries of the Columbia River, including the Willamette and John Day. Course The headwaters of the Deschutes River are at Little Lava Lake, a natural lake in the Cascade Range approximately northwest of the city of La Pine. The rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Day River
The John Day River is a tributary of the Columbia River, approximately long, in northeastern Oregon in the United States. It is known as the Mah-Hah River by the Cayuse people. Undammed along its entire length, the river is the fourth longest free-flowing river in the contiguous United States. There is extensive use of its waters for irrigation. Its course furnishes habitat for diverse species, including wild steelhead and Chinook salmon runs."John Day Subbasin Plan", p. 31 However, the steelhead populations are under federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections, and the Chinook salmon have been proposed for such protection. The river was named for John Day, a member of the Pacific Fur Company's overland expedition to the mouth of the Columbia River that left Missouri in 1810. Day struggled through eastern Oregon during the winter of 1811–12. While descending the Columbia River in April 1812, he and Ramsay Crooks were robbed and stripped naked by Native Americans at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Powder River (Oregon)
The Powder River is a tributary of the Snake River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed May 3, 2011 in northeast Oregon in the United States. It drains an area of the Columbia Plateau on the eastern side of the Blue Mountains (Pacific Northwest), Blue Mountains. It flows almost entirely within Baker County, Oregon, Baker County but downstream of the city of North Powder, Oregon, North Powder forms part of the border between Baker County and Union County, Oregon, Union County. Name The name ''Powder River'' is first recorded in the journals of Peter Skene Ogden without notation of the origin of the name. Explorer Donald Mackenzie (explorer), Donald Mackenzie likely named the river. William C. McKay, grandson of John Jacob Astor's partner Alexander MacKay (fur trader), Alexander MacKay, says that the origin of the name is from the powdery and sandy soil along the shores of the river, from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burnt River (Oregon)
The Burnt River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 3, 2011 tributary of the Snake River in eastern Oregon, United States. It enters the Snake near Huntington at a point upstream of the Powder River and downstream of the Malheur River, slightly more than from the Snake's confluence with the Columbia River. Draining , it flows predominantly west to east. The river begins at Unity Reservoir at the confluence of the North, West, Middle, and South forks of the river. The reservoir is slightly east of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in the Blue Mountains and slightly north of Unity. Unity Lake State Recreation Site adjoins the reservoir. As it leaves the lake, the river flows under Oregon Route 245, then runs east through the upper Burnt River Valley past Hereford and Bridgeport and, through the Burnt River Canyon, to Durkee. Turning generally southeast at Durkee, the river runs along Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grande Ronde River
The Grande Ronde River ( or, less commonly, ) is a long tributary of the Snake River, flowing through northeast Oregon and southeast Washington in the United States. Its watershed is situated in the eastern Columbia Plateau, bounded by the Blue Mountains and Wallowa Mountains to the west of Hells Canyon. The river flows generally northeast from its forested headwaters west of La Grande, Oregon, through the agricultural Grande Ronde Valley in its middle course, and through rugged canyons cut from ancient basalt lava flows in its lower course. While it joins the Snake River upstream of Asotin, Washington, more than 90 percent of the river's watershed is in Oregon. The river was used for centuries by multiple Native American tribes, who fished, gathered and hunted across much of the watershed and convened in the Grande Ronde Valley for trade. European exploration began with the fur trade in the early 1800s; later, the Grande Ronde Valley provided a key resting point al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umatilla River
The Umatilla River is an tributary of the Columbia River in northern Umatilla County, Oregon, Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. drainage basin, Draining a basin of , it enters the Columbia near the city of Umatilla, Oregon, Umatilla in the northeastern part of the state. In downstream order, beginning at the headwaters, major tributaries of the Umatilla River are the North Fork Umatilla River and the South Fork Umatilla River, then Meacham, McKay, Birch Creek (Oregon), Birch, and Butter Creek (Oregon), Butter creeks. The name ''Umatilla'' is derived from the Native Americans in the United States, Native American autonym of the people residing along its banks - the Umatilla people, Umatilla, which called themselves Imatalamłáma - "People from the Village Ímatalam [on the Peninsula formed by the confluence of Umatilla River with the Columbia]", which was first recorded as ''Youmalolam'' in the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and spelled in many other ways in earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touchet River
The Touchet River is a tributary of the Walla Walla River in southeastern Washington in the United States. The Touchet River drains an area of about in Columbia County and Walla Walla County.Washington Road & Recreation Atlas, Benchmark Maps, Medford, Oregon, 2002 The upper Touchet was a traditional summer meeting place for trade and games for the Palus, Nez Perce and Walla Walla tribes. The name Touchet derives from the similarly pronounced Sahaptin term for the river, ''Tu-se'' meaning roasting. Nez Perce legend tells that coyote roasted salmon at this river after breaking a fish dam guarded by the seven swallow sisters at Celilo. The USGS cited two variant names, Pouchet River and Toosha River. Geography The Touchet River is formed by several forks draining the north slope of the Blue Mountains above Dayton in Columbia County. All the forks have their head in the Walla Walla Ranger District of the Umatilla National Forest. The North Fork, about long, begins near Ski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walla Walla River
The Walla Walla River is a tributary of the Columbia River, joining the Columbia just above Wallula Gap in southeastern Washington in the United States. The river flows through Umatilla County, Oregon, and Walla Walla County, Washington. Its drainage basin is in area.Walla Walla Subbasin Plan , Northwest Power and Conservation Council Course The headwaters of the Walla Walla River lie in the Blue Mountains of northeastern . The river originates as the North and South Forks of the Walla Walla River. The surrounding forested land holds a network of ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tucannon River
The Tucannon River is a tributary of the Snake River in the U.S. state of Washington. It flows generally northwest from headwaters in the Blue Mountains of southeastern Washington to meet the Snake upstream from Lyons Ferry Park and the mouth of the Palouse River. The Tucannon is about long. Part of the upper river flows through the Wenaha–Tucannon Wilderness. Watershed The Tucannon basin of ranges in elevation from about above sea level at the mouth on the Snake River to about in the Umatilla National Forest of the Blue Mountains. River flows in the Tucannon basin depend solely on precipitation and groundwater. Studies in the early 1990s suggested that these flows would not be able to meet all of the claims, public and private, on the water resources of the lower river. In particular, farm irrigation projects were competing with fisheries for limited water. The Washington Department of Ecology named the Tucannon basin a Watershed Resource Inventory Area (WRIA) and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snake River
The Snake River is a major river in the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States. About long, it is the largest tributary of the Columbia River, which is the largest North American river that empties into the Pacific Ocean. Beginning in Yellowstone National Park, western Wyoming, it flows across the arid Snake River Plain of southern Idaho, the rugged Hells Canyon on the borders of Idaho, Oregon and Washington (state), Washington, and finally the rolling Palouse Hills of southeast Washington. It joins the Columbia River just downstream from the Tri-Cities, Washington, in the southern Columbia Plateau, Columbia Basin. The river's Drainage basin, watershed, which drains parts of six U.S. states, is situated between the Rocky Mountains to the north and east, the Great Basin to the south, and the Blue Mountains (Pacific Northwest), Blue Mountains and High Desert (Oregon), Oregon high desert to the west. The region has a long history of volcanism; millions of years ago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
