Land settlement -- Washington Territory
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
U.S. Army Department of the Pacific Special Orders No. 87
Collection
Identifier: Coll 1000
Abstract
Handwritten copy of orders issued by Brigadier General Newman S. Clarke of the United States Army's Department of the Pacific in June 1857, prohibiting white persons from moving to specified lands in the eastern Washington Territory and Oregon Territory. The orders were issued during the Yakima War, a conflict in the 1850s between Euro-American emigrants and the Yakama, Imatalamłáma (Umatilla), Cayuse, and Walla Walla peoples.
Dates:
1857