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Present location: Mill Creek, not far from the old Whitman Mission Inn, or 6 miles Way-Lat-Poo on the Mill Fork of the Walla Walla in WA State
Ratified: March 8, 1859
Proclaimed: April 11, 1859
Young Chief, Head Chief of the Cayuses, argued angrily against signing the treaty. Drawing by Gustav Sohon. Picture courtesy of the Washington State Historical Society.
Tribes who signed this treaty:

At the treaty-ground, Camp Stevens, in the Walla Walla Valley

Signed by and between Isaac I. Stevens, governor and superintendent of Indian affairs for the territory of Washington and Joel Palmer, superintendent of Indian affairs for Oregon Territory and the chiefs, head-men and delegates of the tribes listed:

Walla Walla
Cayuse
Umatilla
Five Crows, Chief of the Cayuses. Drawing by Gustav Sohon. Picture courtesy of the Washington State Historical Society

Non-Tribal Signers:

James Doty, Secretary, Treaties
Wm. C. McKay, Secretary, Treaties
C Chirouse, O.M.I.
A. D. Pamburn, Interpreter
John Whitford, Interpreter
Mathew Dofa, Interpreter
William Craig, Interpreter
James Coxey, Interpreter
Patrick McKenzie, Interpreter
Arch. Gracie, Jr., Brevet Second Lieutenant, Fourth Infantry
R. R. Thompson, Indian Agent
R. B. Metcalfe, Indian Sub-agent

Ten Treaties were signed in just 13 months
   
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