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About Thorp, WA

The Kittitas Valley was occupied by the Kittitas ( Yakama Ichishkíin Sínwit: Ki-tatash) or Upper Yakama tribe, as well as hunting and food gathering parties of Cayuse and Nez Perce. The area was rich in wild berries, fish and game, and neighboring tribes annually converged on the valley in April or May to harvest Indian onions ( Allium spp. ), Indian potatoes ( Claytonia lanceolata ), and breadroot ( Lomatium canbyi ). The various tribes engaged in horse trading with early British and American fur traders, and had peaceful relations with Jesuit Catholic missionaries who preceded them. In the 1840s, white settlers began to pour into the Oregon Territory(and later Washington Territory, bringing with them a measles epidemic and other diseases deadly to the indigenous population.