 That, coupled with cultural differences such as plowing the ground, which was seen as desecrating the spirit of the earth, led to confrontation between Native Americans and white settlers.The largest indigenous settlement in the Kittitas Valley at the arrival of the white settlers was "Klála", a village of around 500 people located about one mile above the present town of Thorp along the Yakima River opposite the mouth of Taneum Creek.Further up the river, about six miles northwest of present-day Thorp was the village of "Tátxanixsha", and four miles below Thorp was a village of around 400 people called "Yumi'sh".