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Outbreak of the Spallpox disease
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The Spokane Reservation begins to trade with white men
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The Northwest Company's Spokane House was established and it was moved to the Fort Colvile
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The first white missionary among the Spokanes was Samuel Parker, a Protestant, who began preparing the way for the prospective establishment of Protestant missions
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The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions sent missionaries among the tribe. The Tshimakain Mission was established
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Fr. Peter DeSmet, S.J.--the first of the Catholic "Blackrobes" missionary in Spokane.
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Oregon Trail begins
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Outbreak of the Measles disease
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Isaac Stevens was appointed first territorial Governor and Treaty Commissioner.
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Colonel Steptoe battled the Spokane tribe as well as a few others: Palouse, Coeur d'Alene, Yakama, and other tribes at Te-hots-Ne-Mah.
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Colonel Wright fought with the Coeur d'Alene, Columbia River, Colville, Kalispel and Spokane Indians. The Indians were defeated.
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Both DeSmet and Joset were involvedl in securing peace at the end of the War of 1858.
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Spokane Falls was adopted into Stevens County and lost its identity until 1879
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Fr. Cataldo built St. Michael Mission on the Chief's land, an area in the vicinity of present-day Mount St. Michael north of the city of Spokane
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One hundred Spokane people had received baptism from Fr. Cataldo
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The Lower Spokanes moved to the Spokane Reservation
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President Hayes gave about 157,000 acres of land. The Spokane Tribe was moved to Wellpinit, Washington (50 miles northwest of Spokane).
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The U.S. Army abandoned Fort Spokane; the tribe established a boarding school there
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Indian Agents assigned land to 651 Spokan tribal members
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The first Catholic church--St. Joseph--on the Spokane Reservation was built by Fr. Herman Schuler, S.J. in Ford, WA on the Reservation's east side.
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Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church was built by Fr. Patrick Savage, S.J.
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Bishop Charles White dedicated the recently completed Sacred Heart Church in Wellpinit on the Spokane Reservation.
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1st constitution and bylaws for the Spokane Tribe
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The tribe filed two claims: the land abandoned to the United States- the amount the United States offered was unconscionably low, the U.S. held certain of its duties and properties in trust there was mishandling of these duties.
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Commission approved a settlement of $6.7 million
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The Commissioner of Indian Affairs ratified the constitution and bylaws for the Spokane Tribe
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The tribe was awarded $271,431.23 for another claim they made
