Washington Land Patents – Colville Tribe
Washington Land Patents – Colville Tribe
Colville
Agreement of July 7, 1883
In the conference with chief Moses and Sar-sarp-kin, of the Columbia reservation, and Tonaskat and Lot, of the Colville reservation, had this day, the following was substantially what was asked for by the Indians: Tonasket asked for a saw and grist mill, a boarding school to be established at Bonaparte Creek to accommodate one hundred …
Colville Indians
Colville Indians are located on Colville River and that part of the Columbia between Kettle Falls and Hunters.
Colville Tribe
Colville Indians. A division of Salish between Kettle falls and Spokane River, east Washington; said by Gibbs to have been one of the largest of the Salish tribes. Lewis and Clark estimated their number at 2,500, in 130 houses, in 1806. There were 321 under the Coville agency in 1904.