The Skinpah (Sahaptin: Sk’inłáma, pronounced [skʼinˈɬama]) were a Sahaptin-speaking people of the Tenino dialect living along the northern bank of the Columbia River in what is now south-central Washington.
Eneeshur and Eneesher were used by the Lewis and Clark expedition in late 1805 to refer to a range of Sahaptin peoples speaking the Tenino dialect within modern Klickitat County.
The Skinpah were extensive salmon fishermen, sharing the lucrative Celilo Falls fishing grounds with other Sahaptin and Upper Chinookan peoples.
Like other Columbia Gorge communities, they produced powdered salmon cakes (Sahaptin ch’láy,[6] Wasco-Wishram killuk).
Other tribal communities active in the Celilo Falls region included the Upper Chinookan Wasco and Wishram; and the Sahaptin Klickitat, Yakama, Tygh, and Tenino.
[2] During the Yakima War, some members of the otherwise neutral Skinpah joined the Yakama and other Plateau groups in raids against American settlers.
With significant conflict over local fishing rights between settlers and natives, white vigilantes destroyed Sk'in again in 1932, burning the village while its residents were away.