The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-02-17
HISTORY AND TRADITION.
How Corriyaka Deiiie Came 10 he Named
The Heroism OF the F'Iatheads.

.ipg,ls McDona'd, in Hss,uljan February ID
The pass through which the Northern Pa
rifr railroad will take its course from Mis-
soula 20 he Reservation is we'll known. as
ihr Cuiia, an ,..filr. aud oui uf curiosity {"
know why 4 was So called, Werr requested M.
Augu Mcdonald. nf the It'd Hudson Ba,
post. 10 write us up the particulars of C"rIi'
yaka's daah, as we'll as any other matters "i
historical interest In regard 10 our county.
ln response, we recently received tie follow
ing sketches:
Near the site uf The old mountain mill al
Frenchtnwn. wears before that mill was ever
run. the Flaihs ads were ou certain day ell
ranpad. The Huds"n Bay Company clerk.
z. Ermat niger, had arrived there f"m dur
- ine rrip 10 ilr Snake county. His horses
were t,nnf w"rn aud tender # travel. Cor
tiy,,ka. with IN" othrI Sandwich lslahde's
It the II u. parry, 81 arted Oh ahead TO give
| more time to their limpng horses. Another
party driving "A fresh relay from the post a.
rhrppsai,'s plaiu were making their way I"
meet Erma aringer. Al The middle OF Camas
| s,ai,ie. where the sonihrrn line Of The Res
| rryariou divides that pretty mountain mead
Nv. the rriay men dismmiled Ia sm"ke. IN
LA hour Corriyaka v I'LL his Kanaka friends
was warlaia hy orie hundred Blarkfret foot
oarriofs. Where the first agoi-roah grade
| enters the southern end of that loomy de
liie now bearilIg his name, he aud his friends
nere slain and scalped. Corrlyaka himself.
i rs found on ilis back in death. held his OH
nor west scaiping-knifr clenchrd tight IN MS
flgi, hand. lns .l,.fi being as erimly liked fnll
~ his rurmy's hair. The discovery Of tlis
ktIittr. as so6n conveyed IL tie Flafhead
c,,,nn. about to move behiud C"rrisaka
1 - me of the i,esl warriors aud horses "f thai
tribe wer,. soon ard rapidly rainine on the
one hundred teirraling warriors away on ~ e
green sleeps Of Adeline cfetk--the nearest
one going fr,m the deiiIe on the road To MIS-
smla. There where the piain of ihat creek
mis- i,s noun, af,l forest, bold, we'll pro-
| portinned youth. IN ,unting hne, hong
sindrd. buffalo Ia, holse. passing a' tiii
stride ihiougl, the eehter,f The enemy ahead
of bis party, s,raugel, escaped ihe shower
bullets semi 10 dispatch HIM. bu his ea-ei
4 d "a ar-seeing hay vas shot dead In tile pas
sage, Ina few minutes I he one hundred e''.
EN- rs lad ronnd fri 81 sticks AID siohes
III. III. ,patsurrs, seeilg the sarrihc" re-
loai.,.d . destroy that rieipy. H"re called ot
4 4, ;ielr el..cf % .irsist and live, A he,
rr,nri.r.i hnme Tia. thea risia2 ynuns che
~ b..hf hi m
yan,h wli,se gallant bay steed lay dead o.
IA. lueunsin, That youth was the prrsen
cad Ariar-s s
A few days before Corsaka Was slain, th'
w.fe of one of The Flah.ad chiefs tfasrle'
THAI .lrfle alone. Shr Went ~ weep n ~
grave uf her daughter, buried a. The love
end Of the plains of The present Flaihea'
Agency. On saying what she had there AM
then To say 70 lfer dead daughter and TO I'D
carll, that so silently aud coldly held her
she returned southwark, making for tina
fatal defile again. Before she left her home
n The valley Of the He'll Gate, she was earn
es,ly counseled to forego the danger Of nc
: intended visit. /" Many flower is' born !
blush unseen and waste Its sweetness on th
, desert air. and she was one OF those unas
|suming things which the storm would crus
bnt never awe. She scorned the. very Idea
!. danger attending her awful visit, and ~
only answer TO her kind advisers was: "Wh'
a Death? Has he not taken my child
There il not now IN death any awe for me
Reforming BY the upper crossing on Finis
creek. close TO the large columbian pine
whose back the brave warrior Red Hawk "
slain ! few weeks previously, she still We
maternal bursts Of grief for her own. ~
4 dense primeval forests IN the northern end
q th,t notorious defle made solemn respon
3 u her. ana The enemy l'raH Y afsrs "
2 .u,ny ter foriorn aud solitary rids y Y