There are certain assumptions that Lewis and Clark made even before they got here. They had already defined who Indian people were at that time. There is one instance that is in the journals and it is right out here at Potlatch creek. They ugh, were there in this village at Potlatch creek. Then what is says in the journal is that this Nez Perce woman came and started giving away all her possessions, giving everything she owned away to the members of the expedition and then she went into incantations or something and she started to sing and babble along or some other thing. Then she slashed herself and passed out. They assumed she went crazy or the implication is that she went crazy in doing this. Well it is called a certain thing that Indian women did at that time and it is a term called ‘isxíipit. And what this is, is that you want to increase your knowledge of something or some people or some person and the way to do that is to confront them and make yourself humble and you it’s a sixth, I guess you could call it a sixth sense of trying to increase your knowledge of a particular thing or human being. And this is what she was doing and to see if these people were really the people they really said they were. Are they bringing peace, are they bringing these good things to us and are they going to treat us well. This is the kind of thing that she was trying to find out. This is what’s carried on, what used to be called medicine dances, and, and this sort of similar activity. This is mostly restricted to what women did. And so they don’t interpret it that way, that she just threw a crazy fit and passed out. But there is a certain, there’s a reason why she did that. She wanted to gain knowledge about these strange people and that’s the way she was doing it.