#private property

The Colville peoples have close connections with the land as a relationship rather than a resource. They’ve seen the decades of change and have been able to succeed in carefully protecting the patterns of life, growth and sustainable harvest in their homelands. Yet, for the Colville peoples, their relationship to the land has been threatened through broken treaties and promises. The Colville’s right to their land began to get broken up, pieced away, and ultimately half their original reservation was taken away due to an act of Congress in 1892 due to the discovery of gold deep below the shrub steppe.

Significant Washington Land Returned to the Colville Tribe, its Original Stewards