Skinpah

Skinpah
Sk’inłáma
Portrait of Skinpah chief Mancemuckt
Languages
Sahaptin
Related ethnic groups
Tenino people, other Sahaptin peoples

The Skinpah (Sahaptin: Sk’inłáma, pronounced [skʼinˈɬama]) were a Sahaptin-speaking people of the Tenino dialect living along the northern bank of the Columbia River in what is now south-central Washington. They were first recorded as the E-nee-shers in 1805 by Lewis and Clark.[1] Their village, Sk'in, was located adjacent to Celilo Falls in modern day Klickitat County.[2]

They were signatories of the Yakama Treaty of 1855 at Walla Walla,[3] and were relocated onto the Yakama Reservation as one of the fourteen constituent bands incorporated into the Yakama Nation. Some Skinpah returned to Celilo Falls after relocation, living in Sk’in in close association with the Tenino Wayámpam band until the area was buried under Lake Celilo by the 1957 completion of The Dalles Dam.[4] As a result, some enrolled with the Warm Springs Indian Reservation and contributed to the founding of Celilo Village.[4]

  1. ^ Ruby, Robert H. (2010). A guide to the Indian tribes of the Pacific Northwest. John A. Brown, Cary C. Collins, M. Dale Kinkade, Sean O'Neill (3rd ed.). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-4024-7. OCLC 557404302.
  2. ^ Hunn, Eugene S. (Winter 2007). "Sk'in, The Other Side of the River". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 108 (4): 614–623. doi:10.1353/ohq.2007.0028. S2CID 165209382.
  3. ^ "Treaty with the Yakama, 1855 | GOIA". goia.wa.gov. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
  4. ^ a b Fisher, Andrew (2022). "Sk'in". Oregon Encyclopedia.