Map of eastern Washington and northern Idaho showing location of Colville Reservation, (ca. 1871).

Map of eastern Washington and northern Idaho showing location of Colville Reservation, (ca. 1871).

Colville Indian Reservation--Maps, Manuscript<br>Indians of North America--Washington Territory--Maps, Manuscript<br>Kettle Falls<br>Fort Colville<br>Cascade Mountains<br>Blue Mountains<br>Idaho Territory

1 map: blueprint, hand col., 39 x 48 cm.<br>Map shows location of northeastern Washington Territory, with the Colville region outlined in red. It also shows a large portion of northern Idaho territory, established in 1863. Major landforms such as the Blue and Cascade Mountain ranges and the Columbia River are shown. The first white settlement in this area was Fort Colville (1826-1871), located north of Kettle Falls on the Columbia River. (Kettle Falls was the ancestral fishing site for many Native American tribes, but now lies under Lake Roosevelt, the reservoir of Grand Coulee Dam.) Fort Colville began as a fur trading post until 1846, when it then took on the business of supplying pioneers arriving after the 49th parallel boundary settlement between Great Britain and the United States. One year after its closing, the Colville Indian Reservation was established under a Executive Order signed by President U.S. Grant. <br>This map is most likely drawn by (or for) one of the first Indian Agents of the reservation--Mr. William Parkhurst Winans. Removed from his office in 1873 and replaced by John A. Simms, Winans was known to have worked with a number of white settlers living in the Colville Valley to successfully petition the removal of the reservation from choice land on one side of the Columbia to barren highlands on the other side.

Winans, William Parkhurst, 1836-1917.

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ca. 1871

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Is part of William Parkhurst Winans Papers, 1815-1917<br>http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg147.htm

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