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doubts concerning the identification of the village sites as Palus.
For exainple:
Village location 27, which is idectified by the name Alpowa, is
reported by Dr. Ray to have been "a Palus village of a few houses
located at the mouth of Alpowa Creek." This location is in the extreme -
southeastern corner of the territory claimed for the Palus. 1ncluded.in
the citations give3 by Dr. Ray as his sources for this listing are the
following:
1. Lewis and Clark map (Pet. Ex. 526, part I) -- Lewis and Clark
noted an Indian village at this location with a distinguishing symbol
which represented a wooden house as distinguished from their symbol
designating ''straw and mat lodges." Lewis and Clark did not identify
the Indian tribe or group to which this village belonged.
2. Lewis and Clark (Pet. Ex. 509, pp. 107-108) -- This source
indicates t5at Lewis and Clark reported the presence of an Indian village
at this location without identifying the Indians who occupied it. .
3. Doty (Pet. Ex. 504) -- This exhibit describes various trails and
distances in the general area, In his "itinerary of r~utes from 'Whitman's
Station' in the Walla Walla Valley to 'Craig's' in the Nez Perce country,
the Coeur dtAlene Mission and Spokane Prairie at Antoine Plantes" James
Doty wrote:
Continuing down the Alupah-hah, reach its junction with
Snake Rivsr at Al-pow-ow-ow or Red wolf's Ground . . , there
is a Nez Perce Villzge of 25 Lodges and they have some thirty
acres under cultivation principally Cn Corn. (Pet. Ex. 504, p. 2)
Doty does not refer to any Palus village at this location.
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