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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of a Native American people of northeast Oregon.
  • noun The dialect of Sahaptin spoken by the Umatilla.

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Examples

  • It belongs, like the story of so-called Umatilla in the "Log

    In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk Hezekiah Butterworth 1872

  • During the several days and nights on the Umatilla, Michael learned much of what manner of man Harry Del Mar was.

    CHAPTER XXII 2010

  • And in Hermiston and Umatilla, downwind from the Umatilla Chemical Depot, there seem to be many people in their thirties dying or debilitated by the pernicious disease.

    Time is truly wastin', there's no guarantee (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Next he engaged passage on the steamship Umatilla, sailing for Seattle and Puget Sound ports at daylight.

    CHAPTER XXI 2010

  • So that he permitted himself to be led away by the ship's butcher, who on the Umatilla had the charge of all dog passengers.

    CHAPTER XXII 2010

  • He was from the Umatilla tribe, but Celilo Falls was also a fishing ground for the Yakima, Nez Perce, Wasco-Wishram, and a dozen other bands.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • He was from the Umatilla tribe, but Celilo Falls was also a fishing ground for the Yakima, Nez Perce, Wasco-Wishram, and a dozen other bands.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • He was from the Umatilla tribe, but Celilo Falls was also a fishing ground for the Yakima, Nez Perce, Wasco-Wishram, and a dozen other bands.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • The Columbia originates in Canada, then flows though Washington State and becomes the Oregon, Washington border about twenty miles east and north of McNary Dam near Umatilla, Oregon, where it begins to run parallel with I-84.

    Kayaking the Columbia River. 2009

  • Near Umatilla, Or. the bike and tarmac were traded for kayak and Columbia River below McNary Dam.

    Kayaking the Columbia River. 2009

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