Nation / Tribe
Palouse
The Palouse (Palus) were a Sahaptian-speaking people who lived along the Snake and Palouse Rivers in present-day southeastern Washington, occupying the arid steppe country that bears their name. Lewis and Clark encountered the Palouse in October 1805 at the confluence of the Palouse and Snake Rivers during the downstream journey, noting their mat lodges, dried salmon stores, and horse herds. The Palouse were closely related culturally and linguistically to the Nez Perce and Yakama, sharing the Plateau cultural pattern of seasonal rounds combining salmon fishing, root gathering, and hunting.
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