Exhibits, rodeo and games slated for Inchelium next month
September 5, 6 and 7 the town of Inchelium, on the Colville Indian reservation, 20 miles west of Addy, will hold its annual Inchelium "ceeah." "Inchelium" is an Indian word, meaning "where little water meets big water," and "ceeah" means "group gathering."
The part that will be interesting to Spokane visitors will be the Indian exhibits. There will be on display, for prizes, beaded buckskin work, silk embroidered buckskin work and baskets.
The Indian 4-h club will have exhibits. There will be an Indian rodeo, Indian games and Indian pageants. There will be an exhibit of wild flowers grown on the Indian reservation and a collection of Indian curios.
FAMOUS GAMES TO RUN
Operating at all times will be the two famous gambling games of the Indians: The stick game and "Wahlouks." There will also be horses, Indian trick riders, Indian pony races, and all that goes with a gathering of Indians.
The territory between Kettle Falls and Inchelium on the Columbia River has been the famous fishing grounds for all the tribes of the northwestern Indians since long before the memory of a white man, and many of the Indian exhibits in the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D.C. were gathered from that territory.
Theodore Bourgeau, Alex Covington and Mrs. Isaac Stensgar will be supervisors in promoting the show, in conjunction with all the residents of Ferry county and the Inchelium district, known as Kelly hill, in Stevens county.
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