Red Soils
Murder at the End of the Oregon Trail
"And so, on June 3, [1850] the marshal led the five Cayuse to a gallows erected in the dirt streets of Oregon City, placed hoods over their heads, five nooses around their necks, and hanged them en masse before a crowd of spectators. The last of them died after 15 minutes on the end of the rope. Before the trapdoor was sprung, one of the prisoners had called out to the crowd, 'Wawko sixto wah! Wawko sixto wah!' Translated loosely, it meant "Now we can be friends."
Part 3: Wawko sixto wah!
Ronald B. Lansing, "Juggernaut: The Whitman Massacre Trial of 1850"
