The Walla Walla chief Yellept had given Lewis and Clark a medal the first time they met.  Then on the way back Lewis and Clark still had it.  Yellept greeted the party warmly.  Yellept urged Lewis And Clark to remain in the area for a while.  Yellept wanted the explorers to meet his people and their neighbors.  Though in a hurry to get home the captains agreed.  Yellept
presented Lewis and Clark with firewood and roasted fish.  Yellept gave Clark an elegant white horse.  In return Clark gave Yellept his sword.
    There was a Shoshone captive along the Walla Wallas.  While Lewis and Clark were there many of the Walla Wallas needed medical attention.
 

                Sacagawea
                Alana J. White
                1997
                p. 84, 85, 86
 

    They are of Sahaptain Language and Plateau region culture area.  They formerly occupied the territory along the lower Walla Walla R. and east of the bank of the Columbia R. and south of it's junction with Snake R.
    Their language is separate dialect but similar to the Nez Perce's language.
    In 1805 they were visited by the Lewis and Clark expedition.
    Then in 1855 they were removed by treaty to the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon.  There they became largely integrated with the Nez Peruse.
    In 1990 there was 228 Walla Walla descendants, with most of them living on this reservation.

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