okanagans

Updated: May 23, 2025

The ground was still covered with snow to the depth of two feet, and had been five feet deep in the course of the winter an extraordinary circumstance, as there generally falls so little snow in this quarter, that the cattle graze in the plain nearly all winter. The Indians are designated Okanagans, and speak a dialect of the Atnah.

John McLean - Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory : Volume II.

The tribes residing in Washington Territory are the Nisqually, Puyallup, and other confederate tribes; the D'Wamish and other allied bands; the Makahs, the S'Klallams, the Qui-nai-elts and Qui-leh-utes, the Yakamas, the Chehalis and other allied tribes, and the Colville, Spokanes, Coeur d'Alênes, Okanagans, and others. Nisqually, Puyallup, and others.

Francis Amasa Walker - The Indian Question