The Entiat (Columbia-Moses: šntiyátkʷəxʷ)[1] are a Native American band of Interior Salish peoples in eastern Washington State. Historically, they lived around the Columbia River to the Cascade Mountains along the drainage system of the Entiat River. Today, they are part of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation.

The Sintiatqkumuhs band lived on the Columbia between the Entiat River and the Wenatchee River.[2]

Name

The Entiat are also called Sintia'tkumuk, Sintiatqkumuhs, Inti-etook, and Intietooks.[3]

"Entiat" is the transliteration of the Salishan word /nt'yátkʷ/, [nt'iátkʷ], "place of grassy water", from /na-/, "place", /st'íyaʔ/, "tall grass, hay", and /-atkʷ/, "water".[4]

Colville Reservation

The Entiat are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, a federally recognized tribe. It is located on the Colville Indian Reservation in eastern Washington state. The Confederated Tribes have more than 9,000 citizens from 12 historical bands. In addition to the Entiat, the tribes are known in English as the Colville, the Nespelem, the Sanpoil, the Lake (Sinixt), the Palus, the Wenatchi, the Chelan, the Methow, the southern Okanagan, the Sinkiuse-Columbia, and the Nez Perce of Chief Joseph's Band.

Chief La-Hoom (also spelled La Hoompt) signed the Yakima Treaty of 1855, resulting in most of the tribe moving to the Colville Indian Reservation.[2]

Language

The tribe's Entiat language was an Interior Salish language.[5][2] According to one linguist, it was a dialect of the Nxa?amxcin language.[6]: 2–3  Today, the Entiat speak English.

Population

The Entiat enrollment of September 24, 1954, listed 113 Entiat.[7]

Religion

Many of the tribe converted to Catholicism after Urban Grassi, a Jesuit priest, built a mission in the area c. 1870.[8]: 152 [9]

References

  1. ↑ "šntiyátkʷəxʷ – Entiat". History/Archaelology Department, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 Ruby, Robert H.; Brown, John A.; Collins, Cary C. (2013). "Entiat". A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest (third ed.). University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 120–121. ISBN 9780806189505.
  3. ↑ A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest (1992 revised edition)
  4. ↑ Bright, William (2004). Native American Placenames of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4. Retrieved January 29, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Facts & Information". colvilletribes.com. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved October 3, 2007.
  6. ↑ Willet, Marie Louise (2003). A Grammatical Sketch of Nxa'amxcin (Thesis). University of Victoria. hdl:1828/8056. Retrieved May 16, 2023. The Nxa?amxcin language, along with Colville-Okanagan, Spokane-Kalispel-Flathead and Coeur d'Alene, is part of the southern branch of the Interior Salish subdivision. Nxa?amxcin comprises four dialects: Chelan, Entiat, Wenatchee (Pesquous) and Moses-Columbia.
  7. ↑ "Indian Claims Commission" (PDF). okstate.edu. Archived from the original on September 3, 2006. Retrieved October 3, 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  8. ↑ Karras, Cristy (2023). Remarkable Washington Women. Globe & Pequot. p. 152.
  9. ↑ Laurie Arnold, Ph.D. (July 8, 2017), "Covington, Lucy Friedlander (1910-1982)", HistoryLink, Seattle: History Ink

Further reading

  • Hackenmiller, Tom. Wapato Heritage: The History of the Chelan and Entiat Indians. (Manson, Washington: Point Publishing, 1995).
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entiat_people