Yellow Serpent (chief)
Piupiumaksmaks (alternatively spelled ''Peo-peo-mox-mox'' or ''Peopeomoxmox''; c. 1800 – 1855) was head chief of the Walla Walla (tribe), Walla Walla tribe and son to the preceding chief Tumatapum. His name meant Yellow Bird, but it was often mistranslated as Yellow Serpent by Europeans. Accounts While residing at Fort Hall, Jason Lee (missionary), Jason Lee was greeted by Yellow Bird who presented the missionary with two horses after a test of his medical skills.Whaley, Gray H.. Oregon and the collapse of Illahee U.S. empire and the transformation of an indigenous world, 1792-1859. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Yellow Bird later brought his eldest son, Toayahnu, to be educated at the Methodist Mission, who was christened after Elijah Hedding.Mudge, Zachariah''Sketches of Mission Life among the Indians of Oregon'' New York City: Carlton & Phillips, 1854 Late in 1844, Yellow Bird organised the first Walla Walla expedition, with around 40 Walla Walla peo ...
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