NO. 7 SOHON's portraits of INDIANS — EWERS 6l 



1841. "Iroquois Ignatius" also accompanied tlie priest on his visit 

 to the Crow Inchaiis in the summer of 184J. (Chittenden and Richard- 

 son, 1905, vol. I, p. 39<).) 



Aeneas rendered valuable service to Lieutenant Mullan's exploration 

 of the intermountain region in the winter of 1853-54. MuUan reported : 



I learned, through an old Iroquis Indian, called Aeneas, now resident in the 

 Bitter Root Valley, whose wanderings amid the mountains had often thrown 

 him with parties travelling with wagons at the southward, thereby rendering 

 him capable of judging of the requisites of a wagon road, that a line could be 

 had through a gorge-like pass in the Coeur d'Alene mountains. Our later ex- 

 plorations proved this to be Sohon's Pass. [Mullan, 1863, p. 5.] 



In March 1854 Lieutenant Mullan sent one of his topographers, 

 with Aeneas as a guide, to make a special examination of the locality 

 Aeneas had recommended. Snow prevented their reaching the pass. 

 Five years later Gustavus Sohon made the first scientific exploration 

 of this pass that for many years bore his name. (Ibid.) 



Aeneas outlived his more ambitious comrade, Peter. leather Iloekcn 

 wrote from St. Ignatius Mission in the spring of 1857, "old Ignatius 

 is settled here." (Chittenden and Richardson, 1905, vol. 4, p. 1246.) 

 Baptiste Finley said that Aeneas had two children, both of whom 

 are now dead, and that Aeneas himself died about 1880, and was buried 

 in the old Indian cemetery near Arlee. 



The record indicates the Aeneas was of a more restless disposition 

 than his friend and fellow tribesman, Peter. lie was a wanderer 

 whose knowledge of geography proved valuable to the Government 

 explorers. 



Charles Lamoose, Son of Oi-d Ignace (Plate 21) 



Lamuh (Indian name) 

 Charles (in baptism) 



Charles Lamoose — i Iroquois and i Pend-d'oreille speaks English and French 

 and lives with the Flatheads. 



Charles Lamoose was the eldest son of Old Ignace Lamoose, the 

 Iroquois whom Palladino termed "the Apostle to the Flatheads." As 

 a boy he accompanied his father and younger brother on the long 

 and perilous journey to St. Louis to seek a priest for the Flathead. 

 He was baptized Charles by Father Ilciias in St. Louis on De- 

 cember 2, 1835. His brother received the name of Francis Xavier. 

 Father Helias gave Charles' age as 14, his brother's as 10. He also 

 stated that the boys were able to speak a little French, were handsome, 

 very intelligent, and that their mother was a Flathead. (Garraghan, 

 1938, vol. 2, pp. 246-247.) 



