The following story is excerpted from this book and is part three of a seven-part weekly series. PENDLETON — In June 1878, Bannock and Paiute Native Americans from southern Idaho swept into Oregon and ...

Not many people living today have had the experience of a grandmother telling of her childhood experience of the Bannock Indian War in Oregon. (In Washington history books, it is usually referred to ...

Historians have devoted countless volumes to the United States’ wars on its Indigenous peoples. But few have touched on the wars waged on the Northern Paiutes who once roamed Eastern Oregon, and ...

After the Bannock War, Sarah Winnemucca (1844-1891) assisted the prisoners of war held by Gen. O.O. Howard at the Vancouver Barracks. The loss of her Paiute homeland after the war turned her into an ...

In August 1975, a building burned down at Fort Simcoe Historical State Park. A photo published in the Yakima Herald-Republic from that time shows charred rubble in the foreground, with the park's ...

The Irish-born adventurer, who left the Old Sod at the bottom of the Great Famine, fetched up in what’s now Camas County in 1873 or 1874 as an Indian agent. Suffice it to say that he did much to ...

It is hard to imagine that a plant could start a war. In 1878 though, that is what happened. The Bannock War, which lasted all summer, began because hungry Native Americans were dismayed to see their ...

The land -- Precontact history of Yellowstone -- Historic Native Americans in Yellowstone -- The sheepeaters -- The Nez Perce War -- The Bannock War -- The Bannock trail -- Indians and Yellowstone ...

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Historians have devoted countless volumes to the United States’ wars on its Indigenous peoples. But few have touched on the wars waged on the Northern Paiutes who once roamed Eastern Oregon, and ...