WHITMAN MISSION NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
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In 1836, Dr. Marcus Whitman, a pioneer and missionary, founded the first white mission in the region at the Waiilatpu site. Eleven years later, Whitman and his family were massacred by the Cayuses, who considered them responsible for the spread of the measles that was decimating their tribe. This was the beginning of a long series of clashes that lasted until 1855 and were called the Cayuse War. The Cayuses were finally defeated by the American army and placed in a reserve. Reserves were then established for certain tribes of the Northwest Plateau (Cayuse, Nez-Percés, Umatilla, Walla Walla and Yakama) by the Walla Walla Treaty (1855). The Whitman Mission National Historic Site houses a memorial monument, a museum, and a preserved trace of a section of the Oregon Trail.
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