Cayuse people are a Native American tribe in what is the state of Oregon in the United States.
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10 Facts About Cayuse people
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The Cayuse people ceded most of their traditional territory to the United States in 1855 by treaty and moved to the Umatilla Reservation, where they have formed a confederated tribe.
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The Cayuse language is an isolate, independent of the neighboring Sahaptin-speaking peoples.
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The Cayuse people population was about 500 in the eighteenth century.
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Cayuse people were a seminomadic tribe and maintained summer and winter villages on the Snake, Tucannon, Walla Walla, and Touchet rivers in Washington, and along the Umatilla, Grand Ronde, Burnt, Powder, John Day River, and from the Blue Mountains to the Deschutes River in Oregon.
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Cayuse people attacked the missionaries, killing Whitman and his wife Narcissa, and eleven others.
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Cayuse people put the captives to work together with their members; the adults made clothing for the tribe.
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In 1855, the Cayuse people joined the Treaty of Walla Wallawith the Umatilla and Walla Walla by which the Umatilla Indian Reservation was formed.
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The Cayuse people language is believed to have become extinct by then.
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Cayuse people Indians were located in the Columbia Basin and were nomadic, sometimes moving on a daily basis.
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