Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country: 200 years of ...

A direct descendant of Twisted Hair (the man who had guided Lewis and Clark down the Columbia in 1805), Lawyer also participated in the Walla Walla Treaty Council of 1855. When photographer Edward Curtis visited the Nez Perces in 1905, he took this photograph of Lawyer’s son, James Lawyer (note the peace medal he is wearing). ................
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