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ENTION has been made of the peaceful character of the Indians along the Lower Columbia and their broken strength. It is a fad, therefore, to be noticed that after Fort Vancouver came into the possession of the Americans a number of these Indians did on one occasion form line of battle against the whites, and that by reason of what then happened one spot in the Lower Columbia River Valley bears to this day the title of a battle ground.

The Coweliskies who lived on the Cowlitz River, then known as the Coweliskie, and along the two branches of the Lewis River in what is now known as Cowlitz and Clark Counties of 111