tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533010775907799154.post5977150968848407359..comments2023-08-01T01:15:40.086-07:00Comments on Northwest History: A Lynching in CheneyLarry Cebulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16798046652983001155noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533010775907799154.post-83287577640329031872015-03-12T07:11:04.936-07:002015-03-12T07:11:04.936-07:00Spokane Falls was already a small city in 1884 (by...Spokane Falls was already a small city in 1884 (by Western North American standards) with probably 5,000 people. Cheney was probably 350 or so.<br /><br />Like most lynchings, this one seems to have served several purposes. Foremost is what you've identified: enforced racial separation and supremacy through terror. Second - and this is why the lynching party rode a half-day from Spokane Falls instead of stringing up another Indian man in the city as "the second culprit" - "justice" was in the hands of white residents of Spokane Falls, not the sheriff and county courthouse in Cheney (territory/county) nor the Indian agency (federal government). In other words, it <i>also</i> seems like part of the Cheney-Spokane violence over regional supremacy.Clayton Hansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14334779212038592095noreply@blogger.com