The Whitman Mission

  • The Beginning

    The Beginning
    1802, New York, Marcus Whitman is born. Six years later Narcissa Prentiss is born in Prattsburgh, New York.
  • The Start of a Journey

    The Start of a Journey
    Marcus and Narcissa Whitman start a long journey after they get married, and are both acceptedto be missionaries.
    The couple reached the Walla Walla river on september 1, and decide to found a mission to the Cayuse native Indians.
  • The Whitmans Tragity

    The Whitmans Tragity
    The Whitmans two-year old duaghter drowned in a lake. And Narcissa's eye sight was failing more, and more.
  • The Great Migration

    The Great Migration
    Marcus helped lead the great migration to the weast, guiding a wagon train of one thousand pioneers up the Oregon trail. The Whitmans spent more time assisting theAmericans then in ministrating the Cayuse Natives.
  • The Massacre

    The Massacre
    After bringing the whites into cyuse teritorie the indians were overwhelmed, the whites brought measles and the indians wher diing, they had to take action. They killed 14 whites, inluding the whitmans, and burned the mission buildings down.