Qualchan,1853
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This watercolor portrait is by Lt. J.K. Duncan of the US Army from the Fall of 1853. There are no known pictures of Qualchan. Duncan painted this thinking that he "believed this person to be Qualchan,son of Owhi,Chief of the Yakamas".
Image courtesy of Smithsonian Institution.
This file appears in: Qualchan Hanging Site
Qualchan Hanging Site
This is the site of a murder.
The 1850s were a violent time in northwest history as a growing tide of American immigrants encroached upon Indian land. In 1855 the first governor of Washington Territory, Isaac Stevens, forced the tribes to sign…