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CONTENTS.
THE CAYUSE WAR.
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Policy of the United States Regarding the Pacific Coast—Temper of the People—Congress Seeking Information—Early Fur-Trading Expeditions—Effect of Congressional Inquiry on the Public Mind—Floyd's Schemes for the Settlement of Oregon—Petitions to Congress to Pass a Bill to Occupy the Columbia Region—Troubles of Joint Occupation—Indian Call for Teachers—Mission Effort, and its Result in the Wallamet Valley—Hostility of the Mission Colony to the British Occupants—Secret Aid from the Government—Hudson's Bay Company Introduce Settlers—United States Naval Expedition—First Actual Settlers from the United States—Elijah White's Immigration—First Conflicts Between the Indians and Americans in Western Oregon—Jedediah Smith and John Turner—Black, Gay, Bailey—A Rogue River Indian Shot—Lee and Hines' Visit to the Umpquas—The Dalles Indians—The Clatsops—Puget Sound Tribes—Conclusions Drawn from the Foregoing |
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Presbyterian Missions in Oregon—Dr. Whitman—H. H. Spalding—A. B. Smith—W. H. Gray, Cornelius Rogers—Dr. Parker's Mission to Oregon—Heroic Women—Characteristics of the Flatheads, Cayuses, Walla Wallas, and Nez Perces—Bonneville's Present from a Cayuse—Their Religious Observances—Taught by Pambrun—Missionaries Unable to Understand the Indians—Their Demands—Spalding's Troubles—The Fate of Hat—Attitude of Ellis—Efforts at Agriculture—Mrs. Spalding—Chemekane Mission—Catholic Influence—Blanchet and Demers—The Root of the Troubles with the Indians—Cayuses Assault Dr. Whitman—Assistants Refuse to Remain at the Mission—Gray's Indiscretion—Troubles of Spalding—Demands of the Home Board—Order to Discontinue Waiilatpu and Lapwai Missions—Arrival of White's Immigrant Party—Whitman's Plans, and His Sudden Journey East—Oregon Affairs in Congress—Whitman's Bill, and What it Asked For—The Failure of His Mission to the East—Conclusions |
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Dr. White Called to the Cayuse Country—Disturbances Among the Indians—Personnel of the Party—White's Policy—Council with Nez Perces—Speeches of White, McKinlay, Rogers, and McKay—Replies of Five |
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