Modern Image of the Treaty Tree

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Image courtesy of the Northwest Room of the Spokane Public Library.

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By Allie Honican
The large tree that stands before you, with its distinctive curve, once provided shade to a trading post for Native Americans and the Hudson Bay Company. Baptiste Peone, the chief of the Upper Spokane, chose the location in the 1840s, and it became…