Colville and Palouse notes (part 9).
Date
1953
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UNPUBLISHED
Abstract
"Any other contention in which other tribes, now unidentifiable, are mentioned would only destroy the contention that the Palouses even existed. United States Army officer asserted, and at an early date, that the Palouses represented renegade tribes who had withdrawn east of the Columbia to escape. There appears to be foundation for that. Morever, why would the Palouses claim all the land back from the Snake River, leaving the part fit for habitation to the Nez Perces. This land, back from the river, in many places, then and now, could not subsist anyone. Could it be that as a hazy area in history it has been dug up and surrounded by the Indian halo of old men's stories?"
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19 sheets 8 x 11.5 inch. Typed.