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bill or with its wings, and went up the Columbia and the Spokane, and 

 are supposed to be now about the headwaters of the latter stream and 

 still retaining their language, although under a different tribal name. 



( 'niLr'KTKWA or Chilluckiti BQUAWS (Chinookan stock). — A tribe 

 formerly extending along the north bank of the Columbia in Klickitat 

 and Skamania counties, Washington, from about White Salmon river 

 down to some distance below the Cascades. They are called Chilluck- 

 ittequaws in 1805 by Lewis and Clark, who speak also of a separate 

 baud of the same tribe under the name of Sraackshop, a name which 

 can not now be identified. The tribe now numbers less than 100. 

 Until recently the remnant lived about the mouth of White Salmon 

 river, but removed about thirteen years ago to the Cascades. Their 

 language is nearly the same as that of the Wasko. They have never 

 had official recognition. 



KwiKWit'LiT or Dog River (Chinookan stock). — Synonyms: Cas- 

 cade Indians, Kigaltwalla, Upper Chinook, Wahclellah, Watlala. A 

 small tribe formerly living at the Cascades and about Dog river, 

 a small stream coming into the Columbia about halfway between the 

 Cascades and The Dalles, in Wasco county, Oregon. They are iden- 

 tical, in part at least, with the Wahclellahs of Lewis and Clark (men- 

 tioned as a part of the "Shahala nation''), and are the "Kigaltwalla 

 band of the Wascoes" and the "Dog River band of the Wascoes*' of 

 the Wasco treaty of 1855. The "Dog River or Cascade Indians" were 

 reported to number 80 souls in 1854. In the next year they, with other 

 tribes, entered into the Wasco treaty, by which they agreed to remove 

 to Warmspring reservation, where some of them now are, while the 

 others are still about the Cascades. Their language is nearly the same 

 as that of the Wasko. 



Wasko (Chinookan stock). — Synonyms: Dalles Indians, Wascopum. 

 A tribe formerly claiming the country about The Dalles, on the south 

 bank of the Columbia, in Wasco county, Oregon. They, with the 

 Tlaqluit on the opposite bank, are the easternmost extension of the 

 Chinookan stock, and speak the same language. The name is said to 

 be a Tenino word, meaning "grass," or "grass people." It has some- 

 times been made to include several cognate bands about The I >alles 

 and Cascades, on both sides of the Columbia. Under the name of 

 "The Dalles band of the Wascoes," they entered into the Wasco treaty 

 of 1855, and are now on Warmspring reservation in Oregon. They 

 numbered -'<>0 in 1892. 



Waiam (Shahaptian stock). — Synonyms: (Lower) Des Chutes, Wai- 

 iim iema, Wayyampa, Wyam. A tribe speaking the Tenino language 

 and formerly living about the mouth of Des Chutes river, in the pres- 

 ent Wasco and Sherman counties, Oregon. Their chief village was on 

 the Columbia where Celilo now is, and was called Waiam, whence 

 their nauie of Waiam-'leina or "people of* Waiam." They joined iu 



