Ethnos

Warm Springs Tribes

The Warm Springs Indian Reservation is a barren 640,000 acres located in north central Oregon (parts of Wasco County and Jefferson County), 105 miles southeast of Portland. It is home to several bands from three tribes of the Pacific Northwest:

• the Sahaptin-speaking Warm Springs Indians, organized into four bands: Upper and Lower Deschutes (the Tygh and the Wyam), the Tenino, and the John Day (Dock-spus);
• two bands (The Dalles a.k.a. the Ki-gal-twal-la, and Dog River) of Wasco Indians who spoke a dialect of Upper Chinook; and
• the Northern Paiutes, who spoke Shoshonian and had a way of life very different from the Warm Springs and Wasco bands.

Since 1938 they have been unified as the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. ***
See also: The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs website.