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CAYUSES. 



THE principal settlement of this nation is on the banks of a small 

 creek flowing into the Walla-Walla River, about twenty miles from 

 its confluence with the Columbia. 



Under the superintendence of the late Dr. Whitman, (their mis 

 sionary,) this nation cultivated large fields of corn, wheat, potatoes, 

 and other vegetables, which, with the fish that annually visit the 

 streams watering their country, enabled them to live in comparative 

 affluence. 



They also raised large stocks of cattle and horses, which they bar 

 tered to the Hudson s Bay Company for articles of European manu 

 facture ; so that they were not only above want but the wealthiest 

 tribe in Oregon. 



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TE-LO-KIKT, OR CRAW-FISH WALKING FORWARD. . 



Principal Chief of the Cayuses, and one of the principal actors in 

 the inhuman butchery of Wailetpu. Was hung at Oregon City, June 

 3d, 1850. 



12O. 



SHU-MA-IIIC-CIE, OR PAINTED SHIRT. 



(Painted 1847.) 



One of the chief Cayuse Braves, and son of Te-lo-kikt, and one of 

 the active murderers of the Mission family. 



After the massacre, this man was one who took a wife from the 

 captive females a young and beautiful girl of fourteen. In order 

 to gain her quiet submission to his wishes, he threatened to take the 

 life of her mother and younger sisters. Thus, in the power of 

 savages, in a new and wild country, remote from civilization and all 

 hope of restoration, she yielded herself to one whose bauds were yet 

 wet with the blood of an elder brother. 



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