Cayuses

BusinessWeek ran an article about Cayuses pilot program with the headline The Other Indian Outsourcer, which was not only a clever twist on that singular partnership, but also encapsulated the circuitous route that all contact center outsourcing has taken in the past ten to fifteen years as the boundaries between being at work and at home, and between national and multinational identities, have grown less distinct.

Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us Emily Yellin 2009

Cayuses, Spokans, and Coeur d'Alènes, last May, occasioned the Indian war in Washington Territory.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various

The Cayuses cleaned out the Whitman mission last spring in Oregon.

The Covered Wagon Emerson Hough 1890

Territory of Oregon, on the part of the United States, and the chiefs, headmen, and delegates of the Walla-Wallas, Cayuses, and Umatilla tribes and bands of Indians, who for the purposes of the treaty are to be regarded as one nation.

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 5, part 3: Franklin Pierce 1878

"The thieving Cayuses have made 'way with our melons again," said a young farmer one morning, returning from the gardens of the station.

The Log School-House on the Columbia Hezekiah Butterworth 1872

Whether the mission to the Cayuses and Walla Wallas, which Dr. Whitman established on the bend of the Columbia, was then regarded as a home or foreign field of work, we can not say.

The Log School-House on the Columbia Hezekiah Butterworth 1872

Joe Lewis, an Indian who had come to Whitman sick and half-clad, and had received shelter and work from him, seems to have been on intimate terms with Stanfield, and the two became bitter enemies to the mission and sought to turn the Cayuses against it, contrary to all the traditions of

The Log School-House on the Columbia Hezekiah Butterworth 1872

Joe Stanfield, a half-breed Canadian and a member of Whitman's family, was observed to spend many of the lengthening evenings with the Cayuses in their lodges.

The Log School-House on the Columbia Hezekiah Butterworth 1872

A secret council of Cayuses and half-breeds was held one night under the hunter's moon near Walla Walla, or else on the Umatilla.

The Log School-House on the Columbia Hezekiah Butterworth 1872

But at the beginning of these harvests the Cayuses were sickening and dying, and the mission was powerless to stay the pestilence.

The Log School-House on the Columbia Hezekiah Butterworth 1872