Inscription (Leaving the Lemhi Valley)<br>The salmon runs that fed the Lemhi Shoshone in summer had almost ended: it was time to leave for the fall buffalo hunt on the Missouri River. Cameaghwait and his people would hunt with their allies, the Montana Salish, for mutual defense against enemies like the Blackfeet.<br>Their baggage loaded on horses bought from the Lemhis, the members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition started north on the overland portion of their journey. They faced weeks of fatigue, exposure, and hunger.<br>And though the Lemhi Shoshone would return to their valley home, the Corps of Discovery would find better routes elsewhere.<br><br><i>"A party of the (Shoshone) Indians that we were with, set out with their Horses to go over on the Mesouri (sic) after Buffalo, about 10 A.M. we set out, having all our horses (excepting 2) loaded with our baggage..."</i><span> - Joseph Whitehouse, August 30, 1805<br></span><br>Inscription (Tendoy, Chief of the Lemhi Shoshon)<br>This community is named for a great man: Tendoy, chief of the Lemhi Shoshone from 1863 to 1907. During the Nez Perce, Bannock and Sheepeater troubles of the 1870s, Tendoy preserved the peace in Lemhi County. In gratitude, prominent local settlers supported the chief's staunch resistance to government efforts to move the Lemhis to the Fort Hall reservation near Pocatello.<br><br>In 1892 Congress voted Tendoy a monthly pension; he was the only Indian chief ever so honored. Tendoy died on Agency Creek in 1907, the year the government closed the Lemhi reservation and exiled the Lemhi Shoshone from this valley.<br><br><i>"we must consede (sic) him a place among the heroes of the age... From any standpoint, Tin Doi was a grand old man, with a strong personality, an indomitable will. His influence over his tribe was always for good."</i><span> - Lemhi Herald, May 16, 1907<br></span><br>Credit to: <a href="https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=172862" target="" rel="">https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=172862</a> , <a href="https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=109440">https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=109440</a>
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