AMERICAN INDIANS

CONTENTS Chinookan Sahaptian Shoshonean Salishan Bibliography

Indians of Eastern Oregon by Kathyrn Lee SALISHAN Nekutameux and Moses Columbia George P. Murdock (1938:400) and Verne Ray (1938:393) are in agreement with most scholars in their conclusion that there were never any Salishan speakers south of the Columbia River in numbers to constitute an ethnic grouping. They strongly contradict Berreman (1937:41) by stating there was never a Salishan group known as the Nekutameux east of the Wasco on the Columbia River. Another Salishan group Berreman mentioned was the Moses Columbia (1937:41) which is not cited widely in the literature. Joel Berreman believes that the Northern Paiute pushed these groups north of the Columbia. Other scholars (Ray et. al. 1938) feel just the opposite happened - Sahaptian speakers pushed the Shoshonean groups the opposite direction. From Appendix I of a Survey of Historic and Prehistoric Resources in the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument by Wilbur A. Davis, May 1977.