Word: yellept
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...Corps of Discovery reached the Upper Columbia during the run of the fall Chinook and coho salmon. But instead of eating the fish, they bought the local tribes' dogs for butchering. Bill Yallup Jr., a descendant of Lewis and Clark's West Coast host Chief Yellept, says of the explorers' eating habits, "All this wonderful salmon everywhere, and along come Lewis and Clark to our village. Two days later, they leave again, and we're looking around, and our people are saying 'Hey, what happened to all our dogs...
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