Usage examples (5)

• For "quamash" read "camass," an edible root much prized by the Nez Percés then and now.
• The Natives along the River now are generally employed curing salmon and collecting camass.
• The Nezperces camp is a little farther off at the camass plains and that they have a few beaver, they report that the
• Those of Oregon and the Columbia region gathered large stores of camass and other roots, in addition to other species of berries.