Watlala Indian Tribe
Location
Watlala. Significance of word is unknown.
Also called:
Cascade Indians, the popular English name.
Gila'xicatck, by the Chinook.
Katlagakya, own name.
Shahala, from Chinook saxala, meaning "above," by Chinook.
Connections
The Watlala belonged to the Chinookan linguistic stock and
the Clackamas dialectic group.
Location
At the Cascades of Columbia River and
extending down to the mouth of the Willamette River.
Subdivisions
Subdivisions. The following names have been applied by various writers to the Indians in
this neighborhood and may be subdivisions of this tribe, or perhaps refer
to the entire tribe itself:
Cathlakaheckit, at the Cascades.
Cathlathlala, just below the Cascades.
Clahclellah, near the foot of the Cascades.
Neerchokioon, on the south side of Columbia River a few miles above
Sauvies Island.
Washougal, near Quicksand River.
Yehuh, just above the Cascades.
Population
Mooney (1928) estimates that the Watlala and the Wasco
together numbered 3,200 in 1780. In 1805-6 Lewis and Clark estimated that
there were 2,800. In 1812 the two first-mentioned bands were estimated to
number 1,400. They are no longer enumerated separately and are probably
incorporated at the present time with the Wishram and the Wasco.
Additional Oregon Indian Resources
Notes About the Book:
Source: The Indian Tribes of North America, by John R. Swanton, 1953, Bureau of
American Ethnology, Bulletin 145, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC.
Online Publication: The manuscript was scanned and then ocr'd. Minimal editing
has been done, and readers can and should expect some errors in the textual
output.
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