Dr Margaret Huettl
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Their name for themselves is the Nimipu, which means the people.
So when they meet the Nimiipuu, they have really good timing because they happen to meet them at their Kamis gathering site.
So Kamis is hardy bulb.
It's a kind of like lily that the Nez Perce, the Nimiipuu people eat.
Right.
So they encounter them in a valley where they are harvesting Kamis.
Which means that the Nez Perce have a lot of food to give them.
But at first, the encounter is a little dicey.
The Nimipu are suspicious of these new people.
But what happens is, according to Nimipu oral tradition, there is a woman who had been taken captive by the Blackfeet earlier, traded through the Northwest, similar to Sacagawea.
This whole problem of trafficking Native women happens.
has a long history and today has culminated in the missing and murdered indigenous women crisis.
But this woman had been trafficked and she had eventually ended up with a white family that treated her well.
And so she eventually found her way back home and she comes and tells the Nimiipuu leaders, be nice to these strangers and,
their relatives treated me well.
And so that helps smooth over the encounter.
They feed the Corps of Discovery and they feed Lewis and Clark's group and they give them camas and camas bread and they give them salmon.
But the problem is that the men on this trip did not have a lot of fiber in their diet.
Camas is incredibly fiberful and so it makes them very sick.
Some of the Native nations who encounter Lewis and Clark have general information.
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