The Palouses

At the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the Palouse Indians had coalesced around four primary villages on the lower Snake River: Wawaiwai, Almota, Penewawa, and Palus. Lewis and Clark estimated their population as 2,300 which included Northern Nez Perce.[1]Moulton, Journals, “Estimate of Western Indians,” 6:474.

About Slo-ce-ac-sum (see Figure), the Paul Kane wrote:

We swam our horses at the mouth of the Pelouse River, where it empties itself into the Nezperees [Snake River]. The Chief of this place is named Slo-ce-ac-cum. He wore his hair divided in long masses, stuck together with grease.[2]Paul Kane, Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America . . . (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859), 274.

 

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Notes

Notes
1 Moulton, Journals, “Estimate of Western Indians,” 6:474.
2 Paul Kane, Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America . . . (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859), 274.

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