Edith Downes on Indians in early Spokane.

ID: 5807 ~ Source: Interview with Edith Downes, May 20, 1970. Spokane Public Library, Voices of the Pioneers Oral Histories, 1955-1971, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://digitalarchives.wa.gov /Record/View/B696F48D2C9797D17F978A104EFC1418, Accessed June 3 2023. ~ Date: May 20, 1970
This file appears in: Chief Garry's Last Campsite

In this 1970 interview. Edith Downes, now ninety-six, details her experience living alongside Indians in early Spokane. In it, she briefly alludes to the Indian's expulsion from the city as the flood of white squatters encroached on their homes, with Indian Canyon becoming one of their last refuges.

This file appears in: Chief Garry's Last Campsite

By Henry White
Spokane Garry, whose Spokane name was Sough-Keetcha, lived a long life. Born in 1811 at the confluence of the Spokane and Little Spokane Rivers, he was sent while still a boy to a missionary school at Red River. The idea is that he would be…