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Traditional Tribal Homelands of Washington Plateau Indians – WebQuest
Guiding Question: Given the physical geography, language groups, and economic, spiritual, and cultural lives of the pre-treaty Plateau tribes, what issues might cause conflict within the tribes, between tribes and non-Indian encroachers, and between the tribes and the Federal Government?
1. Go to tto follow along with this online WebQuest.
2.STEP 1.Click on
3. Click onWhos Who
4. Research the site to complete the table below.
The Cayuse The Umatilla The Walla Walla
Describe thephysical features of this tribes land. Make sure to name the region in which it is located and include names of rivers, mountains, etc.
Click onMaking Treaties
5. Skim the site page to respond to the following questions:
At the beginning of the council Stevens had intended on moving the Umatilla, Walla Walla, and Cayuse onto the Nez Perce Reservation, which none of the Indians wanted. Those who voiced their displeasure to the move were intimately attached to their homelands and did not wish to be moved far from them.
What did Stevens want from the treaty?
Why didnt the Native Americans want to move?
I wonder if this ground has anything to say? I wonder if the ground is listening to what is said? I wonder if the ground would come to life and what is on it? I hear what this earth says. The earth says, God has placed me here. The earth says that God tells me to take care of the Indians on this earth.
Tauitau (Young Chief),leader of a band of Cayuse
What do you think Tauitau means with this quote?
“What shall we do at this council?
“Then you the men will be farmers and mechanics, or you will be doctors and lawyers like white men; your women and your daughters will then teach their children, those who come after them to spin, to weave, to knit, to sew, and all the work of the house and lodges, you will have your own teachers, your own farmers, blacksmiths, wheelwrights and mechanics; besides this we want on each tract a saw mill and a grist mill.
“Now we want you to agree with us to such a state of things; you to have your tract with all these things; the rest to be the Great Father’s for his white children.” Gov. Isaac I. Stevens, 1855 Treaty Council
What does Governor Stevens want from this Treaty Council?
What problems do you think came from this point of view?
Go to
Scroll down toCause and Effect,click on the title to open the reading.
6. Analyze the tribal maps on this page to respond to the following questions:
How does the first map from 1854 differ from the map of 1890?
Read the section titledCAUSE AND EFFECTand respond to the following questions.
a. What did the tribes give up, and what were they given in this exchange?
b. What was the goal of the treaties?
c. How does the map represent that the goal of the treaties was met?
7. Scroll down to Treaties.How many treatieswere signed between 1854 and 1856 in the Pacific Northwest?
8. Why do you think there were so many treaties between the United States Government and Native Americans during this time?
OpenWhat is a Treaty?
9. Read the first two paragraphs under Treaties and Councils: What is a Treaty? How is a treaty explained in this reading?
Open this link to read about a conflict between Native Americans and settlers in Seattle.
10. Examine the painting of the Battle of Seattle by Emily Inez Denny.
a. What can you infer about the Battle of Seattle from your observations of the painting?
b. What bias might be represented by the artist?
Click on
11. Read the text and examine the images on the site to respond to the following questions:
Major Explorations, 1778-1812.Richard Somerset Mackie,Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843. (Vancouver, UBC Press, 1997. p. 6. Eric Leinberger, Cartographer.)
a. What is this map showing?
b. What might have happened if there had not been multiple European nations competing for land and resources?
12. Summarize in a single paragraph citing at least three pieces of evidence: Based on your analysis of the maps and texts in this WebQuest, how has the legacy of treaty making impacted the Native American way of life?