Original: The fair Loowit became Mount St. Helens , known to the Klickitats as Louwala-Clough , which means '' smoking or fire mountain '' in their language ( the Sahaptin called the mountain Loowit ) .
Simplified: Mount St. Helens was first called Louwala-Clough , which means '' smoking '' or '' fire mountain '' in the language of the Native American Klickitat people .