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Carol Evans, first woman to lead Spokane Tribe, takes over at critical time

Carol Evans listened as a tribal elder recounted tragedy.

It was 1858 and U.S. troops in today’s Inland Northwest were coming after Indians. Tribal leaders told their people to flee. A woman living near Deep Creek heeded the call and ran north carrying her baby in a baby board. But her baby drowned while she crossed the Spokane River. The mother hung the baby board on a tree near the shore, and the tree grew until the baby board became part of the tree.

It was known as the baby board tree.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/feb/14/carol-evans-first-woman-to-lead-spokane-tribe-take/

 

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