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Date
Visited:
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Sunday, May
11, 2003 |
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City
Visited #:
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336 |
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County:
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Whitman |
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Visited
With:
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Denny, David
& Randy |
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City Name
History:
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City,
river, falls, and a large general area of wheat country in the southeastern
part of the state all bear the name of a Native-American tribe that
inhabited the region. Scholars speculate that the original
Native-American name for the tribe - Palus, Palloatpallah, or Pelusha -
was converted by the French-Canadian voyageurs of the fur companies
to the more familiar French word pelouse, meaning "ground
covered with short, thick grass." The result of the
transliteration was palouse, a term that aptly fitted the area. |
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