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son's Bay Company, who were living on the banks of 

 the Willamette. 



Among the more interesting characters of the early 

 pioneer Missionaries was the young Belgian priest, 

 Father Louis Conrardy, one of the greatest students of 

 the Nez Perce language and who later joined Father 

 Damien at the famous leper colony at Molokai. 



Among some of the principle characters of the 

 Indians of the pioneer period living in this vicinity is 

 Chief Tanitau, also a venerable old Indian named 

 Tiwelkatimini is mentioned as well as Welestimeneen. 

 It seems, too, that Chiefs Aulishwampo, Five Crows, 

 Alakat and Isakaya all pitched their tepees along the 

 banks of the Umatilla itself as do the Indians in the 

 Round-Up village today. 



Here now you find about six hundred Indians, near- 

 ly the entire population of the reservation, and among 

 them not only representatives of the Umatilla (Yuwa- 

 tella), of the Cayuse (Wai'-letpu) from the land of the 

 Paska, or Yellow Flower and the Walla Walla, but of 

 the Yakimas and Columbias with whom they have in- 

 termarried, while occasionally Nez Perce, Bannocks 

 and Oklahomas dwell amongst them. The three tribes 

 of the Umatilla Reservation, brought together by the 

 government, originally known as the Wai'-letpu, have 

 now blended. 



An open lane through the grove forms a village 

 thoroughfare, on either side of which the tepees are 

 pitched. The squaws of some of the later arrivals are 

 still busy unloading the cayuse-pulled rigs and pitching 

 with inborn know-howness, their tepees of blue, white, 

 striped and variegated canvas. Children rollick about, 

 turned-out horses feed nearby, and hunks of raw meat 

 are cached high up on poles out of reach of the dogs. 



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