Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Lake Indians Called by themselves
SENIJEXTEE and possibly identical with the LAHANNA of Lewis and
Clark in 1805, a small tribe of Salishan stock, originally
ranging along Columbia River in northeast Washington from about
Kettle Falls to the British line. In 1820 Fort Colville trading-
post was established by the Hudson Bay Company in their country,
but they remained almost unchanged until Christianized in 1846,
chiefly through the efforts of the Jesuit Father Adrian Hoecken,
who in that year established the summer mission of St. Paul at
the Falls. In 1870 they were officially described as living
entirely by hunting and fishing, selling their furs to the
traders, well fed and clothed, peaceable, friendly, independent,
and Catholic in religion. They numbered then 239. In 1872 they
were collected with other kindred tribes upon Colville
Reservation in the same territory. With the other confederated
tribes they are now attached to the mission of Saint John
Francis Regis, at Ward, in cha