[Snowbrushy]

http://www.yakamanation.net/treaty.php - Read how big it was. Before the ink on the treaty was dry the government opened the land for settlement. I wonder if Mt. Adams has a Native name?

[JVesquire]

I think it was Klickitat, right?

[Snowbrushy]

[Bernardo]

Snowbrushy, do you know what life is like on the reservation today? How many people live there?

[Ski]

Territorial Governor Isaac P. Stevens left a great deal to be desired when it came to something we know as "ethics".

[Snowbrushy]

[salish]

I might be wrong, but several Yakama people I knew referred to Adams as "Pahto", although I don't know if the spelling is correct.

[JVesquire]

The Yakamas certainly might call it that. I remember one native name was Klickitat.

[Snowbrushy]

Here is what the Wikipedia article I posted above said (you are both right). "Native Americans in the area have composed many legends concerning the three "smoking mountains" that guard the Columbia River. According to the Bridge of the Gods tale, Wy'east (Mount Hood) and Pahto (Mount Adams; also called Paddo or Klickitat by native peoples) were the sons of the Great Spirit. The brothers both competed for the love of the beautiful La-wa-la-clough (Mount St. Helens). When La-wa-la-clough chose Pahto, Wy'east struck his brother hard so that Pahto's head was flattened and Wy'east took La-wa-la-clough from him (thus attempting to explain Adams' squat appearance)."

[Snowbrushy]

There is this on the Umatilla website which says that an event at the Yakama Nation will be held in a room with the name (Pahto) that was mentioned for Adams - http://ctuir.org/umatilla-land-buy-back-outreach-event-may-28

[Mike Collins]

[Ski]

gah! that's what I get for pulling stuff out of my failing memory. he was indeed Isaac Ingalls Stevens. Mike if you can find a book called "Judicially Murdered" (local press - I bought my copy at Swanson's in Aberdeen) you'll understand the reason for my statement above. (and looking here, I am not seeing it on my bookshelf... did I already give it to you?) link: http://judiciallymurdered2.weebly.com/ wikipedia blather: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicially_Murdered

[Mike Collins]

Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Kluger has written a book entitled The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek-A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America which recounts the impact if Steven's program on the Nisqually tribe. It likely echoes Judicially Murdered which you referenced concerning the Yakama nation. BTW, Isaac Stevens had a third cousin and good friend named Rufus Ingalls. Somewhere along the way there is a family connection between the Stevens' family and the Ingalls family to allow that middle name to be given to him at birth.

[Pyrites]

[trestle]

Considering the "Yakama" were a "nation" of 14 different groups, grouped together by Guv. Stevens, it's only fitting they would have different names for Mt. Adams. As for Stevens, how could there be a conflict of interest when holding concurrent offices of Governor and Secretary of Indian Affairs? What a great job that must have been, no possibility of corruption there. (#sarcasm for those of you too thick to realize it)