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Five species of Pacific salmon thrive in North Pacific waters: chinook (AKA “king”), coho, pink, sockeye and chum salmon.

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Salmon in the history of the Pacific Northwest
October 8, 2017 1 a.m.

Salmon in the history of the Pacific Northwest

Lewis and Clark’s interpreter and guide Sacagawea was a “Salmon Eater.” That’s what they called her tribe of Lemhi Shoshone Native Americans, a nomadic band who lived in Idaho’s Lemhi River Valley and along the upper Salmon River — their descendants today living mostly on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation near Pocatello.