Wadatika Band of Northern Paiutes arrive to Yakama reservation for five years of internment and imprisonment

In the aftermath of the Bannock War, US President Rutherford B. Hayes ordered the forcible relocation of the Wadatika Band of Northern Paiutes by military escort >300 miles north to the Yakama Reservation in Washington State. Although the Wadatika band was not involved in any of the battles or raids of the Bannock war, they were nevertheless forcibly removed and forbidden to return to their home, the Malheur reservation for five years. 543 Paiute and Bannocks were force marched north. After five years in a concentration camp, they returned home to find it had been returned to “Public Domain” and opened to settlers. These landless Paiutes are the ancestors who survived and fought to create the Burns-Paiute Tribe. They lived together in a tight-knit community and often successfully hid their children from Indian Agents who came to try to take their children to boarding schools, thus retaining their language and traditional practices in meaningful ways. Other Paiutes went to Duck Valley Indian Reservation.