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Major Moorhouse Tracks famed Cayuse Twins in Pendleton
The article profiles Major Moorhouse the coast’s renowned amateur photographer with 1800 negatives mostly of Indian subjects. It details his Cayuse twins Tox e lox and A lom pum born on How tim e ne creek and photographed amid tribal legends, his trust with tribes, and the twins’ famed status as America’s best known papooses.
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United States
Pendleton
Salem
Oregon
Spokane
Walla Walla
Washington
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Indiana
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Him-ye-an-hi-hi
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Ini-Som-Keen
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Bannock Country
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Snake River
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Columbia River
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Cascade Mountains
Williamette Valley
McKay Creek Jim
Lox
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Umatilla Reservation
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