History
For thousands of years, 10+ tribes lived along this expansive river. Right here in "Hood River", the Wasco people, Chinookan Kiksht speakers, thrived as fishers, farmers, and traders.
In the early 1800s, the Wasco people were either killed by diseases or forcibly displaced by the colonizers. Under immense pressure, the Wasco Indians ceded approximately 10 million acres to the US government in exchange for 464,000 acres of land 75 miles south.
They did ensure their right to return to the river to fish for salmon.
This Treaty of 1855 set the stage for an increase in settlers into the ancestral territory of the River People. Today the Wasco tribe is one of three groups that make up the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation.
https://warmsprings-nsn.gov/
https://wscat.org/
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