246 THE KLIKETATS. 
and by the Puget’s Sound Indians the Yakimaws 
are called “ Stobshaddat,” both words signifying 
robber or plunderer. On Puget’s Sound the term 
is likewise applied to any Indians out on a raid. 
As the Whulwhypum dwelling on the prairies to 
the east and north of Vancouver became first 
known to the whites—the Hudson’s Bay people 
of Vancouver—as ‘ Kliketats,” as the term was 
euphonised, so this name has of late been applied 
to the language, and to all-Indians speaking it. 
‘ The Kliketats— the term is used collectively— 
being excellent hunters, had within the last 
quarter of a century extended themselves through- 
out the Walamet valley and as far southward as 
the confines of California, becoming rich by 
supplying the American settlers in these countries 
with venison and horses. The Kliketats, although 
getting the upper hand of the aboriginal owners 
of these new hunting grounds, did not settle per- 
manently therein, but in small parties were con- 
tinually revisiting their native lands. In 1854, 
the territorial government of Oregon compelled 
these Indians to return to their homes, and with- 
draw permanently from southern Oregon, where 
their presence was annoying to the settlers. In 
1855 they were treated with for the sale of their 
lands, which gaye rise to the Indian war of 
