Stlpulmsh

Stlpulmsh is a name of the Lower Cowlitz people, whose villages stood along the Cowlitz River north of the Columbia. The river joined a network of paths and waterways through the forests west of the Cascades. Cowlitz weavers made blankets and clothing from mountain goat hair, valued both within families and as gifts and trade goods. In 1812 Robert Stuart of the Pacific Fur Company travelled up the river and recorded the Cowlitz people; the fur trade brought more frequent contact in the following decades.