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A Chief of the Palouse tribe who lived in Southeastern Washington on the Palouse River just above its junction with the Snake. He was born in 1812 and attended both the Whitman and the Spalding Mission Schools. He was a warrior of considerable fighting ability, until he came to The Dalles and informed the white people that "he would fight no more." He was drowned in the Umatilla River in 1909, aged 97.

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