Cayuse Five
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The Cayuse Five were five members of the Cayuse who were executed for murder in 1850 following an attack on a mission settlement near present-day Walla Walla, Washington. Their names were Clokomas, Is
Tiloukaikt and Tomahas, both defendants
Narcissa Whitman
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Narcissa Prentiss Whitman was an American missionary in the Oregon Country of what would become the state of Washington. On their way to found the Protestant Whitman Mission in 1836 with her husband,
Cayuse Five
…Isiaasheluckas, Kiamasumkin, Telakite, and Tomahas, though spellings vary. The five were charged with murdering the Protestant missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, and eleven others, in an event known as the Whitman massacre. The massacre occurred at a time when the Cayuse had suffered many deaths in a measles…
Narcissa Whitman