The Official Proceedings at the Council in the Walla Walla Valley and Lawrence Kips Indian Council in the Walla Walla Valley, along with James Dotys Journal of Operations, are an exlent source of first hand information on the treaty proceedings. Also reprinted are the texts of the three treaties signed at the end of the council, and the text of three more conferences held by the military authorities with several of these tribesman after the battles of 1855 and 1856. These documents provide an insight, however imperfectly translated, into the way the Columbia basin Native Americans viewed what...

This is an updated list (10 January 2017) of federally acknowledged Indian Tribes in the contiguous 48 states and Alaska, to reflect various name changes and corrections. Amendments to the list include name changes and name corrections. To aid in identifying tribal name changes and corrections, the Tribe's previously listed or former name is included in parentheses after the correct current tribal name. We will continue to list the Tribe's former or previously listed name for several years before dropping the former or previously listed name from the list. The listed Indian entities are...