Supplemental Materials for: Chapter 2: Cultural Geography ... · Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia River Table S 2.1 1 Supplemental Materials for: Chapter 2: Cultural Geography

Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia River Table S 21 1

Supplemental Materials for Chapter 2 Cultural Geography of the Lower Columbia David V Ellis13 13 Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia River (RT Boyd KM Ames T Johnson editors) University of Washington Press Seattle 2013


Table S 21 Lower Columbia Chinookan Villages Named sites from contemporary observers or multiple primary sources

Linguistic and ethnographic annotations by Henry Zenk

Ethnohistorical annotations by Robert Boyd Base document by David Ellis

This table is not an exhaustive listing of names recorded for lower Columbia River villages and groups Numbered villages and groups are those whose identifications are supported by 1) known geographic locations (see map page 3) 2) corroboration either from contemporary observers or from independent mentions in at least two historical or ethnographic sources (citations of observers and sources key to the list of references page 22) Accompanying notes add other names not meeting these criteria where the sources cited are deemed more reliable Note also Lewis and Clark are considered ldquocontemporary observersrdquo although they did not actually see all of the villages named in their journals While staying with the Clatsop Chinookans during the winter of 1805-06 they acquired a degree of competency in what they took to be the ldquoClatsop languagerdquo but which no doubt was actually a simplified Chinookan akin to the Chinuk Wawa of later record (see main volume ch 13) It was through this medium that they obtained descriptions of villages on Willapa Bay and in the densely populated Scappoose BayMultnomah ChannelWillamette Falls sections of lower Willamette River

Most names cited from the earlier Handbook (Farrand 1907 1910) are attributed to Franz Boas we include some others in Boasrsquos own hand preserved in the papers of Hodge compiler Livingston Farrand (ca 1905) Boasrsquos principal source was Charles Cultee a speaker of Chinook and Kathlamet We have drawn upon Curtis (ca 1910a ca 1910b) to identify most sources of names in Curtis (1911180-183 abbreviated as Curtis 1911) and Curtis (1913172-173 abbreviated as Curtis 1913) informants (where known) appear in parentheses following each abbreviated source-citation (Millett) = Sam Millett a Kathlamet speaker said to be 80 ca 1910 (Martineau) = Michel Martineau a Meacutetis (half-Cascades) riverboat captain (E Millett) = Esther Millett a Cowlitz (Salishan) speaker born about 1835 Ray (193838-41 abbreviated as Ray 1938) cites Sam and Esther Milletrsquos daughter Emma Luscier as well as Mrs Bertrand both of Willapa Bay Washington Harrington (1981 [1942-43] mf rolls 17-18 abbreviated as Harrington 17[frame no] Harrington 18[frame no]) is mostly from Emma Luscier (we also cite from Harrington 1981 [1942-43] mf roll 20 abbreviated as Harrington 20[frame no]) While Emma Luscierrsquos father spoke Kathlamet like other Bay Center Chinookans of his generation he used mainly local Salishan at home with the result that Emma Luscier knew local Salishan and Chinuk Wawa but little Chinookan

Other sources and abbreviations The journals of Lewis and Clark are cited by date (for example Lewis and Clark 171806 journal entry dated January 7 1806) so that they may be located in any published edition Lewis and Clark Estimate refers to Lewis and Clark (1990474-488) Lewis and Clark Atlas to Moulton (1983) Lyman (1900320-321 abbreviated as Lyman 1900) cites Silas Smith a part-Clatsop resident of Astoria Oregon and Louis LaBonte Jr son of a Clatsop mother and a trader father as original sources Gairdner (184125-56) cites Michel La Framboise one of the original Astorians Other abbreviations Gibbs (186321-23) is abbreviated as Gibbs 1863 Silverstein (1990534) as Silverstein French and French (1998362-63) as French and French Transcription and spelling Where sufficient phonetic detail is available technical spellings are provided using the alphabets of the Handbook of North American Indians (Suttles 1990x-xi) These are either italicized (to denote phonemic spellings which for Chinookan names employ the phoneme symbols listed in Silverstein 1990533) or bracketed (to denote phonetic spellings that have not been subjected to phonemic analysis) For example under village no 3 the name gitɬaacutelilam is spelled phonemically the name [nutsʼalʼaacuteppunʼɬ] phonetically Supporting citations of names from historical and ethnographic sources are given in their original spellings arranged by date of original recording For example the two foregoing names are also represented by the original spellings GiLāacutelēlam (from Boas 1894) and Noacutet salaacuteppoacutelsquonh l (from Curtis 1911)



(1mdash4) Willapa Bay mixed Chinookan and Salishan at least by the mid-19th century 1 giɬaƛʼpiacutelqs lsquothose of the timbered sloughrsquo (Chinookan form Boas) ƛʼpiacutelqs lsquoslough covered by treesrsquo (Salishan form Boas and Harrington) Palux Indians of the Coparsquolux or Palux R Swan 1857 (1972211) Peacute-luks Ko-peacute-luks place-name (Palix R) Gibbs 1863 Gitlā‑ʼtlpēˊleks ldquodivision of Chinookhellip living on Palix Rrdquo Farrand 1910195 ʟpēˊlEqc (Salishan form) Farrand 1910195 Kpelks place-name (Palix R) Curtis 1913 (Millett) toqʼpiacuteluks Chinook village m of Palix R Ray 1938 tɬʼpɪˑlĸs (Salishan form) Harrington 170032 2 niacutemax ʷ (Silverstein) niacutema (Salishan name Boas) Marˊhoo Nemar place-name (Nemah R) Swan 1857 (197226 211) Nēmax place-name (unidentified) Boas 18942172 Nēˊma village at Nemah Wash Farrand 191054 ldquoChehelis namerdquo Maʽȟw Niacute-maʽȟw Chinook-Salishan village m of Nemah R Curtis 1911 (Millet) 6 houses 150 people (c1850) 3 gitɬaacutelilam lsquothose of the lake [=estuary] townrsquo (Chinookan name Silverstein) [nutsʼalʼaacuteppunʼɬ] lsquowild-rose placersquo (Salishan name Curtis)1 nisaacutel (Boas) GiLāacutelēlam GiLāacutelelam (a Chinookan name) Boas 1894260 1901201 Naselle R people (general term) Noacutet salaacuteppoacutelsquonh l head of Naselle R estuary Curtis 1911 (Millet) 8 houses 200 people (c1850) Salishan ldquomixed with Chinookrdquo Curtis ca 1910a (Millet) Nasal place-name (Naselle R) Swan 1857 (1972211) Ne-sal place-name (Naselle R) Gibbs 1863 Nīsaacutel Naselle R people Farrand 191075 Neʽsl place-name (Naselle R) Curtis 1911 ιnisαl village at head of Naselle R estuary Ray 1938 large all-year town Note Curtis ca 1910a (Millet) adds [nuacutexwasnɬ] Nuacuteˈ‑hwasˈnh l lsquoblackberry placersquo a ldquomostly

Chinookrdquo village at the mouth of Bear River (several miles south of nisaacutel) ldquoall dead in informantrsquos boyhoodrdquo The name is local Salishan cf Upper Chehalis xwaacutesnɬ lsquoblackberry vinesrsquo (Kinkade 1991189)

4 giɬaacutepšuyi lsquograssland peoplersquo (Chinookan name Boas) tiaacutepšuyi lsquograssy placersquo (Chinookan name Silverstein) [pǝtstšɬ] lsquograssrsquo (Salishan name Harrington) GiLāˊpcō-i old site of Sealand Wash 2 Boas 1894260

1 Curtisrsquos name is glossed following Harringtonrsquos (170174) recording of Lower Chehalis [tsʼalʼaacuteʔpapunɬ] tsʼαlʼlɑˑʼpαpoˑnɬ lsquowild-rosersquo


Pŭˊt schĭh l lsquograss townrsquo at Nahcotta Wash Curtis 1911 (Millet) 7 houses ldquounder chief Naacutekatardquo (c1850) Salishan ldquomixed with Chinookrdquo Curtis ca 1910a (Millet) nuacutepαtstcł lsquolots of grassrsquo settlement at Nahcotta Ray 1938 ldquoa village chiefrdquo was naˑkati pαtstʃɬ lsquograssrsquo name of Nahcotta Washington Harrington 180812 nɑkαt once lived there Note Additional Willapa Bay villages identified as Salishan in earlier sources are [gaɬaacuteqstx uqɬ

naqštx uacutekɬ] (Gaʟāˊqstxoqʟ in Farrand 1907688 a ldquosubdivision of the Chihelish [Lower Chehalis]rdquo at North River Naqctxōˊkʟ in Boas 1901196 name of North River Kil-laxt-ho-kles in Lewis and Clark Estimate a village of 8 houses pop 100) cxiacutelsu lsquolittle sandy placersquo (Tsȟeacutelso in Curtis 1913 a Salishan-Kwalhioqua speaking village of 5 houses at South Bend c1850 tsxeˑlsos in Ray 1938 a Chinook village between South Bend and Raymond) [nixwaacutex utsi] (Ḣwaacuteȟot s in Curtis 1913 an ldquoextinctrdquo Salishan village at Bruceport3 xwaˑxots in Ray 1938 an ldquoimportantrdquo Chinook winter village at Bruceport Nix wāˊxōtse X wāˊxōts in Farrand 1910938 Salishan name of a group at Bruceport xwɑˑxʋˑtsɪ in Harrington 170032 a Willapa Bay area place-name)

(5mdash11) Clatsop (tɬaacutecʼǝp ) villages 5 nakutʼaacutet (Silverstein) Nakōtrsquoāacutet Nakōtiexclāacutet place-name (Seaside Ore) Boas 18941331 2712 Ne-co-tat village at Seaside Lyman 1900 (unnamed) Village betw Seaside and Necanicum R Lewis amp Clark 171806 2 houses 6 nikaacutenikm (Silverstein) Necanicum s side Clatsop (=Necanicum) R mouth Lewis amp Clark 171806 2 houses Nekaacutenahum place-name (Necanicum R) Gibbs 1863 Ne-hay-ne-hum ldquoIndian lodge up Necanicum Creekrdquo Lyman 1900 7 niaacutex aqši (Boas) niakʼaacutekʷsi lsquowhere the little pines arersquo (Silverstein) Neacoxie Neacoxie Creek Clatsop winter residence Lee amp Frost 1844295 Ni-a-koacutek-si Neacoxie Creek Gibbs 1863 Niāˊxaqcē name of Neacoxie Cr Boas 1894928 Ne-ah-coxie village at mouth of Neacoxie Cr Lyman 1900 (unnamed) village on NE bank Necanicum R mouth Lewis amp Clark 171806 3 houses 8 niaacutekʼiwanqi lsquowhere there is killingrsquo (Silverstein) Ne-er-ca-war-re-ca old village at cr 8 mi s of Pt Adams Lewis amp Clark 1291805

2 Sealand is not on modern maps According to Susan Pakanen Holway (personal communication) a native of Oysterville Washington it was near modern-day Nahcotta 3 Bruceport Washington does not appear on modern maps According to Tony Johnson a Chinook tribal member and native of South Bend Washington it was on Willapa Bay two miles east of Stony Point (Stony Point is approximately halfway between the mouths of the Palix and Willapa Rivers)


3 houses empty Ne-ah-ko-win village at m of Ohanna (Neawanna)4 Cr Lyman 1900 NiāacutekiexclēwanqicircX ldquomiddle townrdquo of Clatsops Boas 19012365 9 tɬaacutecʼǝp ɬaacutecʼp lsquothose who have pounded salmonrsquo (Silverstein) niaacutekʼilaki lsquopounded salmon placersquo (Silverstein) Clatt Shop nation ldquoQuannio Chiefrdquo Lewis amp Clark 12706 Clacirct Sop on both sides of Point Adams Lewis amp Clark Estimate 14 houses pop 200 Clott sop Nation ldquo8 large wood housesrdquo L amp Clark Atlas (map 82) Clatsop pop 214 men Stuart 1812 (19354) Clatsops ldquonationrdquo at Point Adams pop 130 Kennedy 1824-25

chief Wahhoola Tlatsap ldquotriberdquo name Hale 1846215 Hlaacutetsap village at Fort Stevens Curtis 1911 (Millett) 9 houses under chief Waacutesilta (c1850) łaumltʼcαp village betw Seaside and m of Columbia R Ray 1938 ɬɑˑtsαp place name Harrington 170848 source Emma Luscier Tɬɑˑtsαp Fort Stevens Harrington 170850 source Clara Pearson Klahhelnk [sic] Clatsop Point ldquonationrdquo Gairdner 1835 Tiāˊkiexclēlakē Clatsop the Clatsops Boas 1894926 2286 Ne-ah-keluc lsquoplace of Okelucrsquo large village at Pt Adams Lyman 1900 ldquowhere Okeluc (salmon pemmican) is maderdquo Lāˊkiexclēlak TiāˊkiexclēlakicircX Clatsop the Clatsops Boas 19012311 2337 10 kʼunuacutepi (Harrington) kʼunupiacute (Silverstein after Curtis) Kōnōˊpē ldquotownrdquo name Boas 189427212 Ko-na-pee village ldquonear Hotel Flavelrdquo Lyman 1900 named for Konapee5 Ḳunupiacute a mile above Fort Stevens Curtis 1911 (Millett) 40 large houses under chief Hlaacutesin destroyed by smallpox (c1850) kʼʋnʋˑpɪ ldquoused to be a big townrdquo Harrington 170855 source Emma Luscier 11 naiaacuteaqštawi (Boas) naiaacuteaqsta lsquoat the headrsquo (Silverstein) Nai-aˊak-sten place-name (ldquoRaymondrsquosrdquo) Gibbs 1863 Nayāacuteaqctaōwē place-name (Clatsop region) Boas 189422920 Ne-ahk-stow large village near Hammond Lyman 1900 Naiyaacuteaksta 1-14 mi above Fort Stevens Curtis 1911 (Millett) 11 houses same chief as kʼunuacutepi (c1850) Note Curtis 1911 (Millet) adds three Clatsop region villages Nilsquotl an abandoned village on Lewis and

Clark River (cf NēˊtEl a placename in Boas 19011758) Skepĭnaacuteun (cf SqēpanāˊwunX a

4 See McArthur (2003693) 5 Referred to as ldquothe first white man in Oregonrdquo (Lyman 1900321)


placename in Boas 19012363 2404) a village 4 miles below Nilsquotl consisting of 8 houses under chief Shăˊŭk (c1850) and [nuacuteʔsmaacuteʔspu] Nuacuteʽsmaacuteʽspu a village of five houses under chief Waacuteluski on Youngs Bay near Astoria (c1850) The first two of these names appear also on Silversteinrsquos list spelled niʔtl sqipanaacutewunx respectively According to additional detail in Curtis ca 1910a (Millett) the third name is Lower Chehalis meaning lsquoat butterballrsquo although the village itself was Hlatskanai (Clatskanie Athapaskan) speaking Also Clatskanie-speaking [kiɬaacuteunatɬx ] Ḳi‑h laacute‑u‑na th lȟ a large abandoned village at the head of Youngs River estuary and two other villages farther up Columbia River (see no 22 note)

(12mdash14) Chinook (cʼinuacutek činuacutekʷ) villages 12 wiacuteitčutk lsquoroad coming downrsquo (Chinookan name Silverstein) [nuacutesqwǝlǝx wɬ] lsquowhere the trail comes outrsquo (Salishan name) 6 Uiacutets hutk village of 15 houses (c1850) Curtis 1911 (Millett) nosqwalakł village at Ilwaco last chief iluwakʼuacute Ray 1938 nαwʼsĸwαlʼoxʃəwʼɬ lsquowhere the road comes outrsquo Harrington 170842 Unity (old name of Ilwaco)7 13 cʼinuacutek (Boas) činuacutekʷ čtčinuacutekʷ (Harrington) 8 Chinoak Chinouk village n side Columbia R near mouth Boit 1792 ldquocommandrsquod by a cheif name Polackrdquo (in Howay 1990398 437) Chin-nook Tribe ldquoin Small Villages amp Single housesrdquo Lewis amp Clark 1990 154 1st chief Stock-home 2nd chief Com-com-mo-leye n side Columbia R near mouth Lewis amp Clark Estimate 28 houses pop 400 ldquoOld Chin nook villagerdquo 36 houses Lewis amp Clark Atlas (82) Chin-nook Nation n side Columbia R near mouth and Lewis amp Clark Atlas (83) 18 houses along E bank of a river extending north into Willapa Bay Chinook 280 men Stuart 1812 (19354) Chinooks Chinook Point village chief Comcomely Kennedy 1824-25 Point George village chief Calpo

pop 720 (Chinook Pt) 190 (Pt George) Tshinūk ldquotriberdquo name Hale 1846215

6 Spelled after Kinkadersquos (19911141589) Upper Chehalis recording of qwǝlx -ɬ lsquogo down to a riverrsquo 7 ldquoThey changed the townrsquos name from Unity to put on it the name of the lsquochiefrsquo ʼɪlwαkʋrdquo (Emma Luscier to Harrington 170842) 8 See discussions of the name ldquoChinookrdquo in Silverstein (1990544) and in the main volume Apparently it was originally the name of a specific village site on Bakerrsquos Bay later generalized to include 1) the Native population of the north shore of lower Columbia River which by the late-nineteenth century lived mainly between modern Chinook Washington and Meglar Washington (ldquoThe Chin[ooks] used to live at McGowan amp had a minor town at [modern] Chinookrdquo Sammy Jackson to Harrington 180806) 2) all Lower Chinook speakers on the north side of Columbia River (vs Clatsops located on the south side) 3) all speakers of Chinookan languages Kennedy (1824-25) alone uses the name for two groups under the two most prominent lower-river chiefs of the time Comcomely (or Concomly) whose group he locates at Chinook Point (modern Fort Columbia) on the north side of Columbia River and Calpo (or Coalpo) whose group he places at ldquoPoint Georgerdquo (near Fort George at modern Astoria Oregon) Coalpo is more usually identified as a Clatsop chief (see no 9)


Tsinuacutek Lower Chehalis name of Chinooks Boas 1911563 Chĭnụk Curtis 1911 (Millett) tʃɪnnʋˑkw tʃttʃɪnʋˑkw Lower Chehalis name of Chinooks Harrington 180189 14 qiacuteqʼayaqilxam lsquomiddle townrsquo (Chinookan name Silverstein) kʷacaacutemcʼ lsquoin the middlersquo (Salishan name Harrington)9 Keacutekaiŭgiacutelȟŭm 9 houses 2 miles below Megler Curtis 1911 (Millett) qwatsaacutemts at mouth of Chinook River Ray 1938 the principal village of the Chinooks had associated satellite villages kwαtsɑˑmtsʼ ldquoChinook townrdquo (modern Chinook) Harrington 180791 source Emma Luscier kwαtsɑmαtsʼ betw Point Ellice and modern Chinook Harrington 180808 source Sammy Jackson Note Curtis 1911 (Millett) is the source of the following additional identifications of villages appearing

on Silversteinrsquos list (cf Curtis 1911182) walm lm lsquorotten woodrsquo ( Curtisrsquos WalE mlEm 10 houses cf WalE mlEm name of Fort Canby in Boas 189427226 244) waacutelxat (Curtisrsquos Waacutelȟŭt 8 houses cf Waacutel-la-kut a creek near Bakerrsquos Bay in Gibbs 1863 wɑˑlx αt a placename in Harrington 170840) wapɬuacutecin (Curtisrsquos Waph luacutet sin eight houses located two miles below modern Chinook) ɬaacuteqaɬ lsquotheir creekrsquo (Curtisrsquos Hlaacutekȟah l 15 houses at modern Chinook) ucmuyaacuteqx an lsquosnailsrsquo (Curtisrsquos Ut sŭmuiĕˊkȟan 16 houses at Fort Columbia10) qailcʼiacuteak (Curtisrsquos Qaiil tsiacuteŭk 16 houses 1-12 miles below Meglar) According to Curtis ca 1910a (Millett) ldquoFrom Hlaacutekȟah l to Qaiilt siacuteŭk the whole territory was known as Chĭnụkrdquo

(15mdash26) lsquoDownstreamersrsquo (itgiacutegʷalatkš) and associated groups Itkigwaacutelatks h Villages from no 21 downriver Curtis ca 1910a (Martineau) itgiacutegʷalatkš Chinookans of Kelso WA region Jacobs 1929-305277 giacutegʷalat a Chinookan-speaking tribe Jacobs 1929-3067134 some went to Grand Ronde source Victoria Howard Skil-lute Nation 50 houses pop 15002500 Lewis amp Clark Estimate Note Lewis and Clark distinguish 15 and 16 from the itgiacutegʷalatkš villages farther upriver their

ldquoSkillute(s)rdquo The identification and demarcation of the latter group or groups is very uncertain11 The name itgiacutegʷalatkš itself is a geographical designation comparable to šaacutex latkš

9 ldquokwαtsɑmαtsʼ is merely Cheh[alis Salishan] amp means in the middle bec[ause] it was in the middle betw[een] Point Ellice amp Chinook townrdquo (Sammy Jackson to Harrington 180808) Sammy Jackson lived there until a grown child Cf Upper Chehalis kʷaacutec- lsquomiddlersquo (Kinkade 199150) 10 Curtis ca 1910a (Millett) actually has Tsŭ‑muacute‑i‑ḳŭ lsquosnailsrsquo The published spelling follows Catherine Hawks (or Chiacuteis ht born at wapɬuacutecin about 1830) apparently also source of the Lower Chinook vocabulary appearing in Curtis (1911198-205) According to her this is where the famous chief Concomly (Ḳamkaacutemĭli) resided together with several wives nine sons and two houses of slaves in addition to all the slaves living in his own household 11 According to Lewis and Clarkrsquos description this ldquoNationrdquo extended along the Columbia River from ldquoWappeto [Sauviersquos] Island to the marsey Islands [cf no 16] and on either Side of the Coweliske [Cowlitz] River [below] Hull-loo-et-ellrdquo The closest ethnographically recorded name in terms of location and identification is itgiacutegʷalatkš lsquothose downriverrsquo (as cited here) The name ldquoSkilluterdquo has no obvious matches in later sources We note a close resemblance in form to [sqʰulu tʰ] s ĸʽʋlʋtʽ said to mean lsquovalleyrsquo in Salmon River Tillamook and appearing in the forms [sqʰulu tʰ stʰɪwǝtʰ] s ĸʽʋlʋtʽ s tʽɪwαtʽ lsquovalley personrsquo


lsquoupstreamersrsquo (nos 47-55 referring to any and all Cascades-region peoples) available documentation does not permit exact demarcation of its boundaries

15 gaɬaacutemat (Chinookan form Silverstein) čtkaɬaacuteʔamat (Salishan form Harrington) Calt-har-mar [sic] ldquo9 large wood housesrdquo Lewis amp Clark 11261805 Cath-lacirch-macirch s side Columbia R opp Seal Islands Lewis amp Clark Estimate12 9 houses pop 200300 Cathlamat 94 men Stuart 1812 (193518) Cathlamit ldquotriberdquo s side Columbia above Tongue Pt Kennedy 1824-25

chief Ashwallix pop 125 Katlaacutemat ldquotriberdquo name Hale 1846215 Kat-hlaacutemet village near Cathlamet Point Gibbs 1863 Cathlamet village a few miles above Astoria Boas 19015 GaLāˊmat ldquotriberdquo name Boas 190124414 Kah laacuteamat at ldquoCathlamet Headrdquo [Aldrich Point] Curtis 1911 (Millett) 7 houses under chief Waacutekaȟoh lk (c1850) kałaacuteamat village 4 mi below Puget Isl s side Ray 1938 tʃtkαɬαʼαmαt ethnic name Harrington 180913 Note Curtis 1911 (Millett) adds [ɬiluacuteskwax ix] Hliluacutesqaȟiȟ (cf Tle-las-qua name of Knappa

Oregon Lyman 1900) a Kathlamet-speaking village of four large houses under chief Stuliaacuteȟ eight miles above John Day northwestern (not northeastern) Oregon (c1850)

16 waacuteqaiqam (Silverstein) War-ci-a-cum Tribe nw side in bend in Col R behind islands Lewis amp Clark 1990155 2 villages chief Scumar-qua-up Wack-ki-a-cum n side of Col R opp ldquoMarshey Islandsrdquo Lewis amp Clark Estimate

[sqʰulu tʰwǝš] s ĸʽʋlʋtʽwǝʃ lsquovalley Indiansrsquo (Harrington 200340 source Louis Fuller) While the latter two forms were given with reference to Kalapuyan peoples of the Willamette Valley it is possible that they represent a local Salishan name in former wider currency (compare čakaacuteˑwa village no 45) Silverstein (1990545) proposes two explanations of Lewis and Clarkrsquos ldquoSkilluterdquo 1) that it was not a proper name at all but rather a misunderstanding of the Chinookan expression s(i)kʼǝluacutetk lsquolook at himrsquo 2) that it was for the placename squacutelups (Cape Horn Washington however there are two features with this name on the lower Columbia River one just east of Washougal Washington the other just east of Cathlamet Washington Silversteinrsquos source is evidently Curtis 1911110 referring to the former not the latter Cape Hornmdashfar removed from Lewis and Clarkrsquos ldquoSkillutesrdquo) Another possibility is suggested by the existence of cross-translating Salishan and Chinookan names for some villages (see nos 3 4 12 14) cf Upper Chehalis xʷǝl‑ lsquodrift downstreamrsquo as in sxʷǝlcštn lsquogo downstreamrsquo (which as spoken should sound something like ldquo[sxwǝlǝtsštǝn]rdquo) (Kinkade 1991156 212) cf also ldquoHellwitsrdquo ldquoChillwitzrdquo etc (cited under no 22) Other names offering some degree of resemblance n(α)skʼαlu ˑs (unidentified Clatsop-language geographic name Harrington 170855) [sts ʼələhət] stʃʼαlαhαt (Tillamook name of the Clatskanie language Harrington 170836 cf Chillwitz no 22) ldquoHull-loo-et-ellrdquo is for Chinookan x luit iacutel lsquostrange different countryrsquo an expression applied to non-Chinookan lands according to Silverstein (1990545) Cf Francherersquos (196978) name ldquoChreluitrdquo which appears to be a rendering of (i)x lu it lsquothey are strange differentrsquo based on the same root Lewis and Clark apply the word ldquoNationrdquo inconsistently to different groups in the two versions of the ldquoEstimaterdquo both however use it in reference to Skillute(s) In the explorersrsquo own words villages were grouped together when they were ldquolinked by a similarity of dress and manners and houses and languages which much more than the feeble restraints of Indian government contribute to make one peoplerdquo (Allen 1814 2227 referring to the Multnomahs no 34) 12 Entries from Lewis and Clarkrsquos ldquoEstimaterdquo combine numbers and descriptive information from both versions


11 houses pop 100200 Warkiacum Nation 4 upriver houses 7 downriver houses Lewis amp Clark Atlas (81) Waak-i-cum 66 men Stuart 1812 (193528)13 Wakycomes ldquotriberdquo at Grays Bay Kennedy 1824-25

pop 210 chief Skinaquia Wakaiacutekam ldquotriberdquo name Hale 1846215 Wa-kaacutei-a-kum a village ldquoaboverdquo Jim Crow Hill Gibbs 1863 Wāacuteqa-iqam at Grayrsquos Bay (ldquoGreyrsquos Harborrdquo [sic]) Boas 19016 Kathlamet-speaking ldquotriberdquo waacuteqaiyaqam village 2 mi n of mod Cathlamet Wash14 Ray 1938 wɑˑĸαyĸαm ethnic name Harrington 180964 Note Curtis 1911 (Millett) lists four additional named sites on the north side of Columbia River

between Grays River and Altoona Washington These appear in Silversteinrsquos list with the following standardized spellings and translations (cf Curtis 1911182) kilaacutewiyuks lsquokingfishersrsquo (Curtisrsquos Kilaacutewiuks on Grays Bay just below Grays River abandoned but formerly a large town) tiaksami [sic] lsquowhere small horns arersquo (Curtisrsquos Ṭiacuteyaksami on Grays Bay just above Grays River five houses) niacuteqilcɬ lsquowhere it goes down intorsquo (Curtisrsquos Niacuteqilchh l at Crooked Creek abandoned ldquobut about 1815 there were nine housesrdquo) nakʼaacuteƛqʷi (Curtisrsquos Nakaacuteth lqi about a mile below Altoona 12 houses)

17 čakʷayaacutelxam lsquosummer townrsquo (Boas Curtis) Tcakwayāˊlx am ldquosummer townrdquo near Pillar Rock Farrand 1907232 Chaqayaacutelȟŭm abandoned village at Altoona Wash Curtis 1911 (Millett) canoe cemetery there held 300 canoes Note Curtis 1911 (Millett) also lists Chaȟŭlklĭˊlȟŭm (Silverstein čax lkɬiacutelxam) lsquowinter townrsquo

consisting of four large houses at Skamokawa Washington about 15 miles upriver The chief there was Skamaacuteqeap ([sqamaacutekwiyap] sĸαmɑˑkwɪyαp in Harrington 170830 locally spelled ldquoSkamokawardquo the same as Scumar-qua-up noted by Lewis and Clark to be chief at no 16 cf Skinaquia noted by Kennedy in 1825 to be chief of no 16)

18 ɬaacutelgak lsquoeddyrsquo (Boas Curtis) Hlaacutelkak 2 miles above Altoona abandoned village Curtis 1911 (Millett) Tlāˊlegak ldquotownrdquo a little below Pillar Rock Farrand ca 1905 Lāˊlegak ldquoeddyrdquo town near Pillar rock Farrand 1910762 Note Curtis 1911 (Millett) adds Qiacutet sakasnai (Silverstein kʷiacutecakasnai) a village of seven large

houses seven miles below Skamokawa and Wakataacutema (Silverstein wakataacutema) a village of 6 houses 35 miles below Skamokawa

13 According to Stuart two generations earlier these people were a part of the Chinook but because of a dispute they separated They were named after the chief at the time of the separation 14 While ldquoKathlametrdquo appears in most ethnographic literature as a general term for like-speaking related villages along this part of Columbia River ldquoWakaikumrdquo has also been so recorded It appears that Rayrsquos sources understood the name in this sense and used it for the principal late-historical village of the larger ethnic groupmdashthe settlement at modern Cathlamet Washington (see no 21 below)


19 tǝnǝs-iacuteliʔi lsquoislandrsquo (Chinuk Wawa name) Tanas ilahi place-name ethnic name E Jacobs 1933-3415 language ldquoa little like Clatsoprdquo taumlˊnaumls ιlιι a village a ldquofamous fishing siterdquo Ray 1938 tαnαs ʼɪlɪʼɪ place-name (Tenasillahe Island) Harrington 180124 20 gaɬiaacutešgnmax ix lsquothose of the place of cedar treesrsquo (Silverstein) Qʟa ʹcgEnEmaxicircX ethnic name Boas 190124414 LāʹcgEnEmaxicircx n side Columbia R opposite no 15 Boas 19016 Gatliāʹcge ne maacuteqē a little below no 21 on Columbia R Farrand ca 1905 Qah liăʹs hkŭnĭmaȟiȟ 4 miles above Skamokawa Curtis 1911 (Millett) 7 houses (c1850) 21 gaɬiaʔišaacuteɬx ix lsquothose of the place of kinnikinnick berriesrsquo (Boas Curtis) Guithliaacute-ishalχi ldquotriberdquo below Oak Point Gatschet 1877 KLāacuteecaLxicircxˑ ldquotriberdquo at modern Cathlamet Boas 19016 Ḳah liacuteăis haacuteh lȟiȟ abandoned village at mod Cathlamet Curtis 1911 (Millett) very large burial ground there (c1850) Isaacuteȟh l [sic] first of the itgiacutegʷalatkš villages Curtis c 1910a (Martineau) note According to Curtis ca 1910a (Martineau) Isaacuteȟh l [sic] (given as meaning ldquolike partridge

berriesrdquo cf Chinook and Kathlamet ‑ʔiacutešaɬx lsquokinnikinnick berriesrsquo) was ldquothe first village of Itkigwaacutelatks h as the upper river people called the Chinookans of the lower riverrdquo Silverstein following Ray 1938 adds iloacutex umin (Rayrsquos ιloacutexumιn a village near the mouth of Elochoman R cf ʼɪlʋˑxʋmɪn a place-name Harrington 180698)

22 giɬaacutex aniak lsquothose of qaacuteniakrsquo (Boas) qaacuteniak (Silverstein) [qʰaacuten(ɪ)yaq iqʰaacutenɪyaq] (Harrington) Chillwitz (Salishan name) Ketlakoniak Oak Point ldquonationrdquo s bank Columbia R 16 Gairdner 1841 an offshoot founded šiaacutemištix (no 23) Ne-co-ni-ac small village near Oak Point LeeampFrost 1844 (1968194) Kukhn-yak Kakhn-yak place-name (Oak Point Oregon) Gibbs 1863 Iqāˊniak place-name (Rainier Oregon) Boas 18942273 Qāˊniak place-name (Oak Point) Boas 19012471 GiLāˊxaniak people of Qāˊniak Boas 190124414 Kaacutenyăk village 4 miles above Clatskanie Ore Curtis 1911 (Millett) 6 houses under chief Klakuacutem17 (c1850) ιkʼaacutenaiak n side of Columbia m of Coal Cr Slough Ray 1938 easternmost Kathlamet village ldquolargerdquo ĸʽɑˑnyαĸʽ a place ldquooppositerdquo Oak Point Harrington 170825 source Sarah Scarborough ĸʽɑˑnɪyαĸ ʼɪĸʽɑˑnɪyαĸ Oak Point Harrington 170826-27

15 From the Tillamook field notes of Elizabeth Derr Jacobs (E Jacobs 1933-34 11354-55) Mrs Jacobsrsquos source was Clara Pearson who spoke Nehalem Tillamook 16 Historically the name Oak Point designated a location on the south side (not north side as presently) of Columbia River (see McArthur 2003714) 17 Klaȟuacutem in Curtis ca 1910a (Millett)


source Emma Luscier Hellwits 18 200 men Stuart 1812 (193528) Whill Wetz ldquogreat Whill Whetz village on Oak Pointrdquo Ross 1849109 Chill-wetz ldquotriberdquo near (w of) Oak Point Ore Ross 1821 (1974) Chilwitz ldquotriberdquo s side Columbia R Kennedy 1824-25

at Chilwitz [Clatskanie] R chief Killa kina pop 150

Upper Chillwitz ldquotriberdquo n side Columbia R at a small r Kennedy 1824-25 chief Wasalsal pop 135 Note Boas (19016 158) adds Te ʹiaqiexclo tcoe (Silverstein tia qʼuc ui) a Kathlamet-speaking village on

the south side of Columbia River three miles above Oak Point and ʟa ʹqaʟala (Silverstein ‑ɬa ‑qaɬala [sic]) a Kathlamet-speaking village on the north side of Columbia River also three miles above Oak Point According to Curtis ca 1910a (Millett) there were also two Hlatskanai (Clatskanie Athapaskan speaking) villages on the Oregon side of the river in between villages no 15 and no 22 Ḳawilŭmḳoacutek consisting of four houses at Westport Oregon under chief Ktlu min (a Chinookan name ‑kƛmiacuten lsquomoonrsquo) and Wiacuteĕktlok a mixed Kathlamet-Clatskanie village at Clatskanie Oregon

23 qašiaacutemišti lsquothose of the place of the beakrsquo (Silverstein)19 šiaacutemištix ɬštaacutemištix (Boas) (unnamed) 5 houses at mouth of ldquoCow-e-lis-keerdquo Lewis amp Clark Atlas (89) 6 more ascending the Cowlitz Seamysty ldquonationrdquo split off from qaacuteniak (no 22) Gairdner 1841 ldquofor want of roomrdquo Se-ah-mis-tie place-name (just below m of Cowlitz R) Gibbs 1853-56 qaciāˊmicticircX lsquothe people of Monticello (Longview)rsquo Boas 19011851 Lctāacutemēcticircx frac12-mile below mouth of Cowlitz R Boas 19016 Kathlamet-speaking ldquotriberdquo ciāˊmēctix ldquobandrdquo at the mouth of Cowlitz R Farrand 1910493 Note Curtis ca 1910b (E Millett) lists the following mixed Kathlamet (Chinookan)mdashCowlitz

(Salishan) villages along lower Cowlitz River Kawiacutemni (Kathlamet-Cowlitz speaking village of 14 houses at mouth of Coweman R said to be a Kathlamet name) [tiaacutex anakšix] Tiaacuteȟanaks hiȟ (20 large houses site of Kelso from Kathlamet for lsquorockrsquo) [wakuacutetx mali] Wakoacutetȟmali (20 houses one mile above Kelso on the east bank of Cowlitz River from Kathlamet for lsquostraight perpendicularrsquo referring to a cliff) [stxwe] stȟwe (10 houses about one-half mile above foregoing east bank Cowlitz River Salishan for lsquofisherrsquo20 but a mixed village) [naacuteiakʼutsuix] Naiacuteyakot suiȟ (said to be a Cowlitz-speaking village of eight houses two miles above foregoing on east bank of Cowlitz River but the name is Chinookan from Kathlamet for lsquobonersquo) Villages farther up Cowlitz River were all Cowlitz-speaking

18 Note ldquoH~Wh~Chrdquo in the historical spellings suggesting the presence of a voiceless fricative sound like x(ʷ) and note also our suggestion of a possible local Salishan source for ldquoSkilluterdquo above Again Upper Chehalis xʷǝl‑ lsquodrift downstreamrsquo is suggestive (as in hwicirc΄lEts ɬatcum lsquogo downstreamrsquo Kinkade 1991212) albeit it has not been documented as part of any later-recorded local name 19 The meaning lsquoplace of the beakrsquo may refer to the beak-like shape of the Cowlitz River mouth cf Clatsop Lower Chinook [siamistiacutemaɬ] siāmistēˊmatl lsquoriver mouthrsquo (from -maɬ lsquoriverrsquo) (Boas 1890) 20 The translation is published as lsquomartenrsquo but appears as lsquofisherrsquo in Curtis ca 1910b (E Millett) Cf Upper Chehalis stoʽx weˊ lsquofisherrsquo (Kinkade 1991144)


24 kɬaacutegulaq ɬguacutelaq (Boas Curtis) Wilt-kwil-luk village a little below Rainer Gibbs 1853-56 Guthlaacutekuĕlak ldquotriberdquo at Oak Point Gatschet 1877 Guathlaacuteguit (given as synonym of Guthlaacutekuĕlak) Gatschet 1877 KLāacutegulaq 2 mi below Rainier Boas 19016 Kathlamet-speaking ldquotriberdquo Lguacutelaq place-name Boas 190118313 Hlqụlak 1 mile below Rainier Curtis 1911 4 houses under chief Tsuacutenat suna Note Boas (19016 in Farrand 1907664) gives kɬaacutemuix (KLāacutemōicircx) gaɬiaacutemuix (GaLiāacutemoix) as the

name of another Kathlamet-speaking ldquotriberdquo this one on the site of modern Rainier 25 gaɬaacutekʼalama lsquothose of the rockrsquo (Silverstein 1990545) tkʼalaacutema ɬaacutekʼalama (Boas) Cal-la-mak 10 houses pop 200 Lewis amp Clark Estimate Thlacalama village on both sides of a small stream Franchere 1811 (196981) Klakalama ldquonationrdquo on a small r n side Columbia R Gairdner 1841 Tkalaacutema ldquotriberdquo above Oak Point Gatschet 1877 Tkiexclalāˊma place-name (Kalama) Boas 19011836 Lāacutekiexclalama Kathlamet-speaking ldquotriberdquo at Kalama Boas 19016 Ḳaacutelamat m of Kalama R Cowlitz speaking Curtis c 1910a (Martineau) Note Curtis 1911 (Millett) adds [iacutemaɬ-kwiacuteakaits] Iacutemah l‑qiacuteakaits lsquosmall riverrsquo (cf Kathlamet iacute‑maɬ

lsquoriverrsquo ‑kʷaic [Boas] [iyaacutekaits] [Curtis] lsquosmallrsquo) a large abandoned village ldquooppositerdquo Kalama Washington

26 Cathlahaws (Lewis and Clark) Cath-la-hawrsquos [sic]21 lower Kalama R s bank Lewis amp Clark Atlas (80) 2 houses Cathlahaws old village on Deer Island Clark 1814 (in Jackson 1978 2542) (27mdash42) Wapato Valley 27 gaacuteɬapʼuƛx lsquothose of Lewis River (naacutepʼuƛx)rsquo (Silverstein 1990544) Quath-lah-poh-tle ldquoabove the Entrance of Cahwahnahiooks Lewis amp Clark 11051805 [Lewis] riverrdquo22 14 connected houses extending frac14 mile a ldquoNationrdquo 14 houses pop 300900 Lewis amp Clark Estimate Cathlapoutle ldquolarge villagerdquo at entrance to Cowitk [not Cowlitz] river Franchere 1811 (196981) Cathlapootle Nation 180 men Stuart 1812 (193531-32) Catleapootle ldquotriberdquo on small r n side Columbia R Kennedy 1824-25

21 Given as ldquoCath-la-hawrsquos Villagerdquo Silverstein and Moore spell the name gaɬaacutex awš in Lewis and Clark (199025) translating it as lsquothe ones who have cous rootsrsquo Silverstein (1990534) however uses Lewis and Clarkrsquos spelling without translation 22 Though the ldquoCah-wah-na-hi-ooksrdquo River is clearly the Lewis both maps 80 and 89 in the Lewis and Clark Atlas show the village at the mouth of Lake River which empties into the Lewis above its mouth This is the location of the archaeological Cathlapotle


pop 195 Katlaportl ldquonationrdquo n side Columbia R Gairdner 1841 extending 5 miles from m of a small r Nah-poo-itle a village across Columbia R from no 28 Lyman 1900 chief Sha-al NāˊpōLx name of river Farrand 1907217

Gāˊʟapōʟx name of people Farrand 1907217 Note Henry 1814 (1992666) has Catlipoh as a ldquovillage near the mouth of the Willametterdquo23

According to Curtis ca 1910a (Martineau) ldquothe country about the mouth of Lewis Riverrdquo was called [wiɬkt] Wĭh lkt and was inhabited by Klickitats Martineaursquos observation is indicative of the drastic decline of local Chinookan populations by the mid-nineteenth century

28 naacuteiaguguix (Curtis Boas)24 Nai-a-kook-wie village at St Helens Gibbs 1853-56 Nayakauacutekau ldquotriberdquo at St Helens Oregon Gatschet 1877 Ni-a-kow-kow St Helens home of chief Ke-as-no Lyman 1900 Nāʹyagōgo‑icircXpa at St Helens Boas 1901569 Naiacuteyakukuiȟ village at St Helens Curtis 1911 (Millett) Note Curtis ca 1910a (Millett) adds [kasniacuteukatnai] Ka‑sniacute‑ŭ‑ka‑tnai an abandoned village at the

ldquosite of Columbia Oregonrdquo (presumably Columbia City just north of St Helens) 29 ɬaacuteqstʼax gatqstʼaacutex (Boas)25 Clack Star Nation on small stream west of Sauviersquos Isl Lewis amp Clark Estimate 2028 houses pop 350120026 4-8 houses on route to Tillamook Lewis amp Clark Atlas (84) Tlāˊķstaq Gatķstāˊq s side of Columbia a little below no 37 Farrand ca 1905 ldquotriberdquo moved later to waacutekʼanasisi (no 41) ʟāˊqstʼax (respelling of above) Farrand 1910762 30 gaɬaacuteqʼmap lsquothose of the moundrsquo27 (Silverstein) Cath-lah-cum-ups w side Multnomah Channel Lewis amp Clark Estimate 6 houses pop 150450 Cath lah cum ups 3-5 houses Lewis amp Clark Atlas Cathlakamass m of Multnomah Channel opp no 27 Stuart 1812 (193532) 120 men Wacam-appe a ldquotriberdquo Ross 1821 (1974) Wa com app

23 In the early nineteenth century there were three ldquomouthsrdquo of the Willamette separated by Coan and Pearcy Islands now attached to Sauvie Island and the mainland respectively (Boyd 199629) 24 Curtis ca 1910a (Millett) translates lsquonoisy placersquo explained as ldquoreferring to the fact that walking produces a hollow rumbling under footrdquo 25 According to Kraus (in Suttles 1990532) ldquoThe name is Chinookan iɬaacuteqštaq lsquoroundheadsrsquo [reference to non-Chinookan people lacking flattened heads] (Michael Silverstein communication to editors 1987)rdquo However Boasrsquos information appears to identify the group as Chinookan Farrand (1910763) claims that the name is for the Athapaskan speaking Clatskanie 26 Interior Athapascan Clatskanies may have seasonally descended Scappoose Creek (Kraus in Suttles 1990530) such seasonal movement may explain the variable numbers in the two versions of Lewis and Clarkrsquos ldquoEstimaterdquo (Boyd and Hajda 1987) 27 Cf waacuteqʼmap lsquomoundrsquo a Wishram village name (French and French)


Wacumass ldquotriberdquo at m of Willamette Kennedy 1824-25 chief Kassino pop 290

Wakamas ldquonationrdquo Deer Isl to Multnomah Channel Gairdner 1841 chief Kesho [sic] 31 sqǝpus (Boas)

[nipiacutetšak] (Gatschet) Scap-poose village at mouth of Milton Creek Gibbs 1853-56 SqEˊpōs a place ldquobelowrdquo St Helens Boas 190121912 Skaacuteppus village at Scappoose Oregon Curtis 1911 (Millett) Ne-pe-chuck ldquobandrdquo camped at Milton Oregon28 Smith 1856 Ne-pe-chuch pop 20 chief Chona-Chona Nipi ˊtchak ldquotriberdquo at Milton Gatschet 1877 Note Gatschet adds [waɬaacutepayak] Uathlaacutepayak as the name of ldquoanother triberdquo ldquoabove St Helensrdquo 32 namuacuteitk (Boas) Namuit ldquotriberdquo on an island opp Willamette R Kennedy 1824-25

chief Twatillacome29 pop 190 Namouite tribe e side m of Willamette R main stem Ross 1821 (1974) Mamnit [sic] extinct ldquonationrdquo on Sauviersquos Isl e side Gairdner 1841 Nah-moo-itk place-name (a point on Sauviersquos Isl) Lyman 1900 Namōˊitk village e side Sauviersquos Isl Farrand 191018 near lower end 33 Clannahquah (Lewis and Clark) Clan-nah-queh e Sauviersquos Isl downstr end Sturgeon L Lewis amp Clark 141805 2 houses 3301806 4 houses pop 130 Lewis amp Clark Estimate Clan nah quah Tribe 1 ldquolarge houserdquo 2 more downriver Lewis amp Clark Atlas (88) 34 maacuteɬnumax lsquothose towards the water (Columbia R)rsquo (Silverstein 1990545) Mult-no-mah s e Sauviersquos Isl upstr end Sturgeon L Lewis amp Clark 1141805 3301806 6 houses pop 200800 Lewis amp Clark Estimate 3-7 houses some detached downriver Lewis amp Clark Atlas (88)

1991 63 69 Maltnoba two villages on a wooded island Franchere 1811 (196982)

28 This name does not appear in earlier records and appears to have been first used to refer to part of the people placed on the temporary reservation at Milton in 1855 The town of Milton no longer exists According to McArthur (2003648) it was located near the mouth of Milton Creek which enters Multnomah Channel (the part of Willamette River flowing around the west side of Sauviersquos Island) just south of St Helens Oregon 29 Original reads ldquoTwatillicome amp Namuitrdquo Principal Chiefs ldquoNot Knownrdquo Twatillicome appears in McDougall (1999) as a chiefrsquos name Apparently Kennedy misentered the name in his Names of the Tribes column Twatillicome was a Portland basin chief mentioned in several early 1820s sources John Work mentions ldquoTitellhams upper villagerdquo just upriver from ldquoKaisenosrdquo (no 30) Apparently there was a lower (seasonal) village too but its location is not given (Work 1824 Hajda personal communication 2010)


Math-la-nobs 80 men upper end Sauviersquos Isl Stuart 1812 (193532) Emulthnomah a point on Sauviersquos Isl above no 32 Lyman 1900 Nēˊmaʟnōmax place-name (lsquodownriverrsquo) Farrand 1907956 35 Cathlanaminimin (Lewis and Clark) Clan-nar-min-a-mun sw Sauviersquos Isl Lewis amp Clark 3221806 431806 3-4 houses LewisampClark Atlas (s80 88) 199169 Clan-nar-min-a-mon 12 houses pop 280 Lewis amp Clark Estimate Cathlanaminimin ldquotriberdquo ldquoon the banks of the Wolamatrdquo Franchere 1811 (196994) Cathlanamencimen ldquotriberdquo on ldquoLong [Sauviersquos] Islandrdquo Stuart 1812 (193532) reduced by smallpox ldquoto about 60 menrdquo Katlaminimim ldquonationrdquo on Sauviersquos Isl Gairdner 1841 survivors all living on e side of island 36 Claninata (Lewis and Clark) Clan-in-na-tas 5 houses pop 100200 Lewis amp Clark Estimate Clah-in-na-ta 3-5 houses LewisampClark Atlas (s80

88) 199169 37 gaɬaacutenaqʷaix naqʷaacuteix (Boas)

gaɬaacutenakʼʷaix (Silverstein) Cath-lah-nah-quiah w coast Sauviersquos Isl upr from widest part Lewis amp Clark 3291806 2-3 houses Lewis amp Clark Atlas (80) 199169 6 houses pop 150400 Lewis amp Clark Estimate Năχuaiacuteχ ldquotriberdquo on Sauviersquos Island Gatschet 1877 Gaʟāˊnaqoa-ix (group name) Farrand 1907217 Naqoāˊix (group name) Farrand 191013 Naḳwaiiacuteȟ betw Multnomah Ch and Willamette R Curtis c 1910a (Martineau) Gah lanaacuteḳwaiiȟ (name of the people) Curtis c 1910a (Martineau) Na‑qaiacute‑iȟ on Multnomah Ch 4 mi s of Scappoose Curtis c 1910a (Millett) Note the spelling of the village name in Curtis (1911181) varies somewhat from the spellings in

Curtis ca 1910a Also the published statement that the name applied to villages no 28 and no 31 (as well as to no 37) is not in the sections of Curtis ca 1910a seen by us Curtis ca 1910a (Millett) adds ldquoInformant once saw many houses there while passing on a steamboatrdquo

38 Cathlacommahtup (Lewis and Clark) Cath-la-com-mah-tup mainland opp upstr end Sauviersquos Isl Lewis amp Clark 3301806 3-5 houses LewisampClark Atlas (s 80

88) 199163 69 3 houses pop 70170 Lewis amp Clark Estimate


39 nimaacuteɬx ʷinix (Silverstein) Ne-mal-quinner e bank Willamette R 2 miles above m Lewis amp Clark Estimate 4 houses pop 100200 1 house on Willa R 2 on Columbia Slough LewisampClark 199163 6930 40 gaɬaacutewakšin lsquothose of waacutekšinrsquo (Curtis)

waacuteksin lsquodamrsquo (Silverstein) Gah laacutewaks hĭn ldquothe people of the village Waacuteks hinrdquo Curtis 1911 (Martineau) mouth of Willamette R Wɔxsūn village at St Johns m of Willamette R31 Drucker 1934 source John Wacheno 41 gaɬaacutekʼanasisi lsquothose of butterball ducksrsquo (Silverstein) waacutekʼanasisi lsquobutterball ducksrsquo (Boas) Wa-kan-a-sis-se village opp m of Willamette R Gibbs 1853-56 Uaacutekănăshishi opp m of Willamette R place of a ldquotriberdquo Gatschet 1877 Guaacutethlakanashishi ldquothe whole triberdquo Wa-kan-a-shee-shee a point opp no 34 Lyman 1900 Wāˊkiexclanasicircsi place and people name Boas 19012197 16 Gāˊtlaǩʼanasisi ldquotriberdquo formerly living at ɬaacuteqstax (no 29) Farrand 1905 called thus after relocating to waacutekʼanasisi Wakaacutenas hĭs hi village name 8 miles below Vancouver Curtis 1911 (Martineau) Gah lakaacutenas hĭs hi the people of the village 42 Shoto (Lewis and Clark) Shoto ldquovillagehellip2 miles from the river behind Lewis amp Clark 3201806

a pondrdquo 431806 8 houses pop 160460 Lewis amp Clark Estimate Choteau Tribe 3 houses behind lake 4 along Columbia Lewis amp Clark Atlas (79) Shotoes houses behind lake 3 along Columbia R Lewis amp Clark Atlas (88) Shoto Nation 3 or 4 houses along Lake R Lewis amp Clark 199163 69 43 lsquoThose of Clackamas Riverrsquo (giɬaacuteqʼimaš) gitɬaacuteqʼimaš giɬaacuteqʼimaš lsquothose of niqʼiacutemaš (Clackamas R)rsquo (Silverstein 1990544) niqʼiacutemašix (Silverstein) Clark-a-mus Nation on a small r falling into lower Willa R Lewis amp Clark 431806 11 towns (info from man at no 47) pop 8001800 Lewis amp Clark Estimate Clukemas a ldquotribe of Indians who dwell uprdquo this river Henry 1814 (1992656) Klakimass ldquonationrdquo ldquoon river of that namerdquo Gairdner 1841

30 Lewis and Clark provide additional detail on this site in a journal entry dated 421806 ldquo10 miles from this [Willamette] riverrsquos enterence into the Columbia [note discrepancy with the Estimatersquos ldquo2 m[ile]srdquo 10 miles places nimaacuteɬx ʷinix plausibly at the archaeological St Johnrsquos site] to a large house on the NE sidethis is the house of the Cush-hooks Nation [no 46] who reside at the falls of the [Willamette] river which they make use of when they come down to the Vally to gather Wappatoa number of other Smaller houses are situated on two Bayous on the SE side a little below the houserdquo 31 Lewis and Clark show nimaacuteɬx ʷinix (no 39) at St Johns But their maps (Lewis and Clark 19916369) show 4 or 3 houses along a slough on the east side of the Willamette behind the former Pearcy Island These houses are possibly to be identified with waacuteksin


Clack a mas tribe Clackamas River ldquotriberdquo Belden 1855 Nekeacutemash name of Clackamas language Gatschet 1877 Guithlaacutekimas a Clackamas Indian Gatschet 1877 Giʟāˊqiexclēmas a Clackamas (person) Boas 19012373 Gih lakeacutemas h tribe living on Nikeacutemas hiȟ (Clackamas R) Curtis 1911 (Martineau) Note Several names of villages on Clackamas River were given by John Wacheno (Drucker 1934)

while none are reliably transcribed three are relatively unambiguously identified apʽsuxi tcalxum (ldquotownrdquo at Estacada Oregon) [q]alai i lxum kalaii lxum (ldquowinter townrdquo on Eagle Creek near Estacada) [q]au wu haacutei pa qawahaipa (fall fishing village at Gladstone Oregon)

(44mdash46) Willamette Falls 44 [gi(t)ɬaacutewiwalamt] lsquothose of wiwalamtrsquo (Boas)32 waacutelamt (Silverstein after Curtis)33 gaɬawaacutelamt lsquothose of waacutelamtrsquo (Curtis) ɬaacutewiwala tɬaacutewiwala (Silverstein 1990545) Willhametts Willamette Falls w bank Slacum 1972 (1837) ldquoThis tribe was formerly very numerousrdquo Willamette Tum-water signed Willamette Valley Treaty U S Statutes 1855a Wal-lamt w bank Willamette R near Oregon City Lyman 1900 Waacutelamt w bank Willamet te R at Willamette Falls Curtis 1911 (Martineau) Gitlāˊwēwalamt (explanation of name ldquoClowwewallardquo) Farrand ca 1905 Giʟāˊwēwalamt (transliteration of foregoing) Farrand 1907313 Gah lawaacutelamt name of the ldquotriberdquo there Curtis 1911 (Martineau) wɔlamt village at Oregon City w bank Willa R Drucker 1934 source John Wacheno Clow e walla ldquoIndianshellipsix houseshellipparallel with the Riverrdquo at Willamette Falls Henry 1814 (1992657) Katlawewalla ldquonationrdquo at Willamette Falls Gairdner 1841 Keowewallahs (synonym of Wilhametts above) Slacum 1837 (1972) Willamette Falls w bank ldquoThis tribe was formerly very numerousrdquo Clow-we-wal-la signed Willamette Valley Treaty U S Statutes 1855a 45 čakaacuteˑwa (Molala name Frachtenberg Jacobs)34 Charcowah Nation above Willamette Falls w bank35 Lewis amp Clark Estimate pop 200 info from man at no 48 Lewis amp Clark 431806

32 Boas did not clearly distinguish between the fricative consonant [ɬ] and the combination [tɬ] writing both as lttlgt (early field transcription) or as ltʟgt (publication orthography) His transcription of this name is therefore ambiguous as to whether the prefix complex should be parsed as g‑it‑ɬaacute‑(wiwalamt) with plural it‑ marking the stem or as g‑i‑ɬaacute‑(wiwalamt) with masculine singular i‑ marking the stem Curtis shows the name with feminine singular a‑ g‑a‑ɬa‑(waacutelamt) The original stem-form is obscure 33 According to Lyman (1900320) the name is properly accented on the second syllable while Curtis shows it accented on the first syllable 34 Apparently this name had passed out of currency among Chinookan speakers before it could be accurately recorded but survived as a geographic and ethnic name in the neighboring Molala language 35 On July 3 1812 Robert Stuart said ldquothe first nation above the Falls are the Cathlapoo-yays supposed to be 300 strongrdquo (193533) Although the location appears to be the same ldquoCathlapoo-yaysrdquo may refer to non-Chinookan Kalapuyans of the Willamette Valley


Char-cow-ah Nation 4 houses Lewis amp Clark 199163 tsˑakāˊwa name of Oregon City (Molala language) Frachtenberg 1911 tcaĸaacuteˑwaʼaifq people at Oregon City (Molala language) Jacobs nd 46 kʼaacutešxǝkš kʼašxǝkšix (Jacobs) 36 Cush-hooks e bank of Willamette R below falls Lewis amp Clark 4306 1 house (info from man at no 47) pop 250650 Lewis amp Clark Estimate 4 houses Lewis amp Clark 199163 kʼašxǝkšix a place in myth where people starved Jacobs 1929 (1958-59462) at Oregon City or betw there and Oswego kʼaacutecxǝkc a ceremonial site Jacobs 1929-30 5210 qʼacūx cĭx village just above Willamette Falls w bank Drucker 1934 source John Wacheno (47mdash55) lsquoUpstreamersrsquo (šaacutex latkš) šaacutex latkš lsquothose upriverrsquo (Silverstein and Moore in Lewis amp Clark 1990 610) šaacutex l(a) lsquoupriver aboversquo (Silverstein and Moore in Lewis amp Clark 1990 610) giɬaacutex išačk lsquothose of the fallsrsquo (Boas Curtis) ikiacutešačk lsquofallsrsquo (Boas) Sha-ha-la Nation The Cascades to Sauviersquos Isl (ethnic term) Lewis amp Clark Estimate 62 houses pop 13002800 Saho Latak Language language spoken from Cascades to Astoria37 Gairdner 1841 Sahalatak (same ref to Willamette Falls groups) Gairdner 1841 Saxala ethnic name (lsquoaboversquo) Farrand 1910519 Giʟāˊxicatck people of The Cascades Boas 189427626 ikēˊcatck placename (Cascades of the Columbia) Boas 1901531 8 Gih laacuteȟis hachk n side Columbia R at the Cascades Curtis ca1910a (Martineau) village-complex including 50-55 47 Neerchokioo (Lewis and Clark) gaɬaɬaacutela lsquothose of waɬaacutelarsquo see no 54 Ne-er-cho-ki-oo 1 plank house 24 ldquostrawrdquo38 Lewis amp Clark Estimate

36 Silverstein (1990545) referring to Lewis and Clarkrsquos spelling below proposes a different etymology ldquoWasco-Wishram Chinookans humorously refer to the Clackamas and other related Chinookans from below the Cascades as qaacuteštx ukš lsquothe qaacuteštx u onesrsquo (lsquothose who say qaacuteštx u lsquothusrsquo instead of qiacutedaursquo) This name was recorded by Lewis and Clark as Cash-hooks and Cush-hooksrdquo It is also possible that Lewis and Clarkrsquos ldquoCush‑hooksrdquo is for Chinookan ‑kiacutešačk lsquofallsrsquo recorded as a name both of Willamette Falls and of the Cascades of the Columbia River 37 The source distinguishes the ldquoSaho Latak Languagerdquo from the ldquoChenook Languagerdquo the latter spoken on Clatsop Point [Point Adams] and at Bakerrsquos Bay 38All houses were occupied in the fall (ldquothis is the residence of the Natives from the [Cascades] Rapids when gathering Wappato in the Fallrdquo) only the plank house was occupied in the spring (Lewis and Clark Atlas [88]) ldquo5 men amp a woman informed us that their relations who was with them last fall reside at the Great rapids [Cascades of the Columbia] and were down getting wappatordquo (Lewis and Clark 33106)


Lewis amp Clark Atlas (88) Cathlalthlalah Tribe ldquowinter village Banks of the Columbia HBC 1838

opposite Vancouverhellip summer village Columbia Cascadesrdquo 48 ničaacuteqwli lsquostand of pinesrsquo (Silverstein) Ne-cha-co-lee ldquoone long house with Seven appartmentsrdquo Lewis amp Clark 42-31806 + 5 houses of former ldquovery large Villagerdquo Ne-cha-co-kee s bank Columbia R opp Government Isl Lewis amp Clark Estimate 1 house pop 100 Nech-er-cokee Lewis amp Clark Atlas (79) 49 gaɬawašuacutexʷal lsquothose of wašuacutexʷalrsquo (Curtis) wašuacutexʷal wašuacutexal (French and French)39 gaɬaɬaacutela lsquothose of waɬaacutelarsquo see no 54 Wasaughalles ldquotriberdquo n side Columbia R pop 100 Kennedy 1824-25 Wa-sucally tribe s side Columbia R at Sandy R Ross 1821 (1974) Wasough-ally (alternate form) Ross 1849106 Gah lawas huacuteȟwal ldquotriberdquo at Was huacuteȟwal Curtis 1911 (Martineau) Was huacuteȟwal village near Washougal Washington Curtis 1911 (Martineau) Catlaklila (listed with Wasaughalles) Kennedy 1824-25 Note French and French add waacutexix a village on the north side of Columbia River opposite Bridal

Veil Oregon 50 ɬaɬaacutela gaɬaɬaacutela lsquothose of (wa)ɬaacutelarsquo see no 5440 Wah-clel-lah ldquoNorth sidehellipa mile below the beacon rockrdquo Lewis amp Clark 491806

Clahclellars ldquothe winter station of the Wah-clel-lahs and Clahclellarsrdquo41 14 houses occupiedhellip9 houses latterly abandoned hellipremains of 10 or 12 othershellipin the rearrdquo Wahclalla 9 houses of Shahala Nation Lewis amp Clark Atlas (79) Note Curtis 1911 (Martineau) Curtis ca 1910a (Martineau) and Spier and Sapir (1930167-168)

list four additional villages at the lower Cascades These appear in French and Frenchrsquos list respelled as nimišx aacuteya (Spier and Sapirrsquos nimĭcxaacuteya north side just west of Beacon Rock Curtis ca 1910a Nĭmĭs hȟaia lsquohe paints his facersquo mouth of Woodward Cr) ‑ɬx axʷaacutelukɬ (Spier and Sapirrsquos łxax waacutelukł north side just below Hamilton Island) kamigʷaacuteixat lsquoupper roadrsquo (Curtis 1911

39 Curtis ca 1910a (Martineau) explains the name as ldquoreferring to the noise made by the water of a creekrdquo 40 Lewis and Clark recognized Wah-clel-lah (no 50) and Clahclellars (no 51) as separate groups of Shahalas (šaacutex latkš) with villages located near Beacon Rock and Bradford Island respectively Their spellings however point to two inflected forms of the same name -ɬala (David French in Boyd 1996349 see no 54 below) 41 Lewis and Clark made an important observation on the seasonal movements of the Wah-clel-lah and Clahclellars on April 9 1806 ldquothe former have lately removed to the falls of the Multnomah [Willamette Falls]hellipwhere they take their salmonhellipthe latter have established themselves a few miles abovehellipopposite the lower point of brant [Bradford] islandhellip[where]they also take their salmonrdquo


Kamigwaiacuteȟat a little below the following) and gayačaacuteqɬqʷtix (Curtis 1911 Ḳaiuchŭˊkh lqtĭȟ at the lowest of the three Cascades)

51 ɬaɬaacutela gaɬaɬaacutela lsquothose of (wa)ɬaacutelarsquo see no 54 Clahclellar n side at lower end of Bradford Is Lewis amp Clark 491806 summer village Clah-lar-lar 4 houses Lewis amp Clark Atlas (79) Cathlathlaly below () The Cascades Henry 1814 (1992644) Note French and French add wimaɬġikšat (in between gayačaacuteqɬqʷtix and qix ayagiacutelxam) which also

appears with the spelling wiacutemaɬg iacuteks at in Adams (19587 a village on the north side of the Columbia near modern Bonneville Dam on authority of Mr amp Mrs Frank Esterbrook Cascade Indians) Adamsrsquos and French and Frenchrsquos citations may come from the same source According to Curtis 1911 (Martineau) there was an associated Middle Cascades village named swapapaacuteni at Eagle Creek (refer to French and French)

52 qix ayagiacutelxam lsquomiddle villagersquo (French and French) Katlagakya lsquomiddle peoplersquo ()42 Gairdner 1841 ldquonationrdquo Col R from Cascades to Vancouver Kĭȟaiagiacutelȟŭm village a little below no 53 Curtis 1911 (Martineau) 53 skʼmaacuteniak lsquoobstructedrsquo (French and French) Skamaacutenyăk n side middle (of the three) Cascades Curtis 1911 (Martineau) skEmaacuteniak village a little below no 54 Spier amp Sapir 1930167 54 waɬaacutela lsquosmall lakersquo (French and French) ɬaɬaacutela gaɬaɬaacutela lsquothose of (wa)ɬaacutelarsquo (French and French 1998376) (unnamed) ldquoold deserted village on a Pond on a high Situation of 8 Housesrdquo Lewis amp Clark 103105 Waw thloo las people on n side Cascades Thompson 1811(1994155) Watχlala Indians of The Cascades Hale 1846ː214 Watlala language name (Upper Chinook) Hale 1846569 Wah-lal-la band Cascades ldquobandrdquo Belden 1855 signed Willamette Valley Treaty U S Statutes 1855a Ki-gal-twal-la signed Middle Oregon Treaty U S Statutes 1855b Wah laacutela Upper Cascades n side Curtis ca1910a (Martineau) Gah lah laacutela (name of the people) Curtis ca1910a (Martineau) wałaacutela at Slide ldquodoubtfully a villagerdquo Spier amp Sapir 1930167 Note Kennedy 1824-25 lists Canhooks as a ldquotriberdquo pop 150 on the north side of The Cascades 55 gaɬawaacuteyaxix lsquothose of waacuteyaxixrsquo (Curtis) -waacuteyaxix lsquohis face placersquo (French and French) Yehuh 8 houses ldquoon a Deep bendrdquo starboard side [Clark] 103005 Lewis amp Clark Atlas (79)

42 ldquoAnother name proposed as a synonym [for Cascades (people)] is Katlagakya Possibly it can be reconstituted (respelled) as ʔ [sic for ] gaɬax iqʼaya(k) lsquomiddle peoplersquo with the name being related to qix ayagiacutelxam lsquomiddle villagersquo rdquo (French and French 1998376)


8 houses n side 6 houses South Lewis amp Clark 1988370 Y-eh-huh Village on n side just above the rapids [Lewis] 41106 Wy-ach-hich same ldquoremovedrdquo to opp side to fish [Clark] 41306 ldquovillagehellipof 11 houseshellipabout 60 fighting menrdquo We yark eek people on s side Cascades Thompson 1811(1994155) Cath-le-yach-e-yach ldquotriberdquo at Cascades s side Ross 1821 (1974) 1849111 Thlamooyackeack [sic] (group name) Henry 1814 (1992644) Cathlayacky above Cascades N side 3 houses Henry 1814 (1992648) Cathlayackty above Cascades S side 8 houses Henry 1814 (1992648) Waiacuteaȟiȟ village at Cascade Locks Oregon Curtis 1911 (Martineau) Gah lawaacuteiaȟiȟ people occupying s side of Cascades Curtis 1911 (Martineau) waacuteiaxˑixˑ ldquotriberdquo just above Cascade Locks Spier amp Sapir 1930173

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Allen AJ 1848 Ten years in Oregon Travels and adventures of Dr E White and lady Ithaca NY Mack Andrus Belden G 1855 Sketch map of Oregon Territory exhibiting the locations of the various Indian tribes the

districts of country ceded by them with the dates of purchases and treaties Map 234 Cartographic Records Division National Anthropological Archives Washington

Boas Franz 1890 [Clatsop Lower Chinook word-list] Ms hand-copy by Dell Hymes of ms 4b6 Library of the American Philosophical Society Philadelphia

mdashmdash 1894 Chinook texts Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 20 Washington DC mdashmdash 1911 Introduction and Chinook In Handbook of American Indian languages ed Frederick Hodge

Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 40(1)1ndash79 563ndash677 Boyd Robert 1996 People of The Dalles The Indians of Wascopam Mission Lincoln University of Nebraska

Press Boyd Robert and Yvonne Hajda 1987 Seasonal population movement along the Lower Columbia River

The social and ecological context American Ethnologist 14(2)309ndash26 Curtis Edward ca 1910a The North American Indian Mss Vol 8 GC 1143 Box 8 folder 815 Seaver

Center for Western History Research Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County mdashmdash ca 1910b The North American Indian Mss Vol 9 GC 1143 Box 9 folder 91 Seaver Center for

Western History Research Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County mdashmdash 1911 The Chinookan tribes the Wishram and Chinook and Kathlamet vocabularies In The North

American Indian Vol 8 85ndash154 172ndash83 198ndash205 Norwood MA Plimpton mdashmdash 1913 Cowlitz villages In The North American Indian Vol 9 172ndash73 Norwood MA Plimpton Drucker Philip 1934 [Clackamas Upper Chinook ethnographic notes from John Wacheno Grand Ronde

Oregon] Mss 4516 (78 82) Philip Drucker papers National Anthropological Archives Smithsonian Institution Washington

Farrand Livingston ca 1905 Chinook [group names in Franz Boasrsquos hand] Records of the Bureau of American Ethnology Series 1 Correspondence Letters Received 1888-1906 Box 100 Ms in National Anthropological Archives Smithsonian Washington DC


mdashmdash 1907 1910 Articles on Chinook Clatsop Kathlamet and Wahkiakum In Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico ed Frederick Hodge 2 vols Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30

Frachtenberg Leo J 1911 [Molala texts and data from Stephens Savage Siletz Oregon] Ms 2517 National Anthropological Archives Smithsonian Institution Washington

Franchegravere Gabriel 1969 Journal of a voyage on the North West Coast of North America during the years 1811 1812 1813 and 1814 ed and trans W Kaye and Wessie Lamb Toronto Champlain Society

French David and Kathrine French 1998 Wasco Wishram and Cascades In Handbook of North American Indians vol 12 Plateau ed Deward Walker 360ndash77 Washington DC Smithsonian

Gairdner Meredith 1841 Notes on the geography of the Columbia River Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 11250ndash57

Gatschet Albert 1877 [Clackamas Upper Chinook vocabulary] Ms 268 National Anthropological Archives Smithsonian Institution Washington DC

Gibbs George 1863 Alphabetical dictionary of the Chinook language New York Cramoisy Hale Horatio 1846 Ethnography and philology vol 6 Narrative of the US exploring expedition during the years

1838ndash42 ed Charles Wilkes Philadelphia Lea and Blanchard Harrington John P 1981 [1942-43] The papers of John Peabody Harrington in the Smithsonian Institution 1907-

1957 vol 1 Microfilm rolls 17-18 Quinault Chehalis Cowlitz Yakima Chinook Chinook Jargon roll 20 Tillamook Millwood N Y Kraus International Publications

HBC [Hudsons Bay Company] 1838 Census of Indian population at Fort Vancouver Klickitat Tribe Cathlacanasese Tribe Cath-lal-thlalah Tribe Ms B22321 fols 26-28 Hudsons Bay Company Archives Winnipeg

Henry Alexander 1992 [1814] The journal of Alexander Henry the Younger vol 2 The Saskatchewan and Columbia Rivers ed Barry Gough Toronto Champlain Society

Howay Frederic 1990 [1941] Voyages of the ldquoColumbiardquo to the Northwest Coast 1787ndash1790 and 1790ndash1793 Portland Oregon Historical Society Press

Jackson Donald ed 1978 Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with related documents 1783ndash1854 2 vols 2nd ed Urbana University of Illinois Press

Jacobs Elizabeth Derr 1933ndash34 Field notebook nos 107 113 Ms Melville Jacobs Collection University of Washington Special Collections Seattle

Jacobs Melville 1929ndash30 [Clackamas Upper Chinook texts and data from Victoria (Wishikin) Wacheno Howard West Linn Oregon] Mss field notebooks nos 52-69 in boxes 78 79 and 80 University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Melville Jacobs Papers Acc 1693-001 Seattle

mdashmdash 1958ndash59 Clackamas Chinook texts Part 1 Folklore and Linguistics Publication 8 Part 2 Folklore and Linguistics Publication 11 Indiana University Bloomington

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Kennedy Alexander 1824ndash25 Report Fort George District Columbia Department Ms B 76e Hudsonrsquos Bay Company Archives Winnipeg

Kinkade M Dale 1991 Upper Chehalis dictionary Occasional Paper in Linguistics No 7 University of Montana Missoula

Lee Daniel and Joseph Frost 1844 Ten years in Oregon New York J Collard Lewis Meriwether and William Clark 1988 The journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ed Gary Moulton

Vol 5 Lincoln University of Nebraska Press


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Oregon Historical Society Press McDougall Duncan 1999 Annals of Astoria The headquarters log of the Pacific Fur Company on the Columbia

River 1811ndash1813 ed Robert Jones New York Fordham University Press Moulton Gary 1983 Atlas of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Lincoln University of Nebraska Press Ray Verne 1938 Lower Chinook ethnographic notes University of Washington Publications in Anthropology

7(2)29ndash165 Ross Alexander 1849 Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River London Smith Elder

and Co mdashmdash 1974 [1821] Map of Columbia Friends of the Ellensburg Public Library Ellensburg WA Silverstein Michael 1990 Chinookans of the Lower Columbia In Handbook of North American Indians vol 7

Northwest Coast ed Wayne Suttles 533-46 Washington DC Smithsonian Simpson George 1931 Fur trade and empire George Simpsons journal 1824-1825 Frederick Merk ed

Cambridge Harvard University Press Slacum William 1972 [1837] Memorial of William Slacum Fairfield WA Ye Galleon Press Smith Thomas 1856 [Letter of January 8 with census] Records of the Oregon Superintendency of Indian

Affairs 1848ndash73 National Archives Washington DC Spier Leslie and Edward Sapir 1930 Wishram ethnography University of Washington Publications in

Anthropology 3(3)151ndash300 Stuart Robert 1935 The discovery of the Oregon Trail Robert Stuartrsquos narratives of his overland trip eastward

from Astoria 1812ndash13 ed Phillip Rollins New York Scribnerrsquos Suttles Wayne ed 1990 Handbook of North American Indians vol 7 Northwest Coast Washington DC

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University of Washington Press Thompson David 1994 Columbia journals ed Barbara Belyea Montreal McGillndashQueenrsquos University Press United States 1855a Treaty U SmdashKalapuya and confederated bands of Willamette Valley United States

statutes at large 101143 mdashmdash 1855b Treaty U Smdashtribes of middle Oregon United States statutes at large 12963 Work John 1824 Journal April 15ndashNovember 25 1824 Ms 219 Oregon Historical Society Research

Library Portland


Table S 21 Lower Columbia Chinookan Villages Named sites from contemporary observers or multiple primary sources

Linguistic and ethnographic annotations by Henry Zenk

Ethnohistorical annotations by Robert Boyd Base document by David Ellis

This table is not an exhaustive listing of names recorded for lower Columbia River villages and groups Numbered villages and groups are those whose identifications are supported by 1) known geographic locations (see map page 3) 2) corroboration either from contemporary observers or from independent mentions in at least two historical or ethnographic sources (citations of observers and sources key to the list of references page 22) Accompanying notes add other names not meeting these criteria where the sources cited are deemed more reliable Note also Lewis and Clark are considered ldquocontemporary observersrdquo although they did not actually see all of the villages named in their journals While staying with the Clatsop Chinookans during the winter of 1805-06 they acquired a degree of competency in what they took to be the ldquoClatsop languagerdquo but which no doubt was actually a simplified Chinookan akin to the Chinuk Wawa of later record (see main volume ch 13) It was through this medium that they obtained descriptions of villages on Willapa Bay and in the densely populated Scappoose BayMultnomah ChannelWillamette Falls sections of lower Willamette River

Most names cited from the earlier Handbook (Farrand 1907 1910) are attributed to Franz Boas we include some others in Boasrsquos own hand preserved in the papers of Hodge compiler Livingston Farrand (ca 1905) Boasrsquos principal source was Charles Cultee a speaker of Chinook and Kathlamet We have drawn upon Curtis (ca 1910a ca 1910b) to identify most sources of names in Curtis (1911180-183 abbreviated as Curtis 1911) and Curtis (1913172-173 abbreviated as Curtis 1913) informants (where known) appear in parentheses following each abbreviated source-citation (Millett) = Sam Millett a Kathlamet speaker said to be 80 ca 1910 (Martineau) = Michel Martineau a Meacutetis (half-Cascades) riverboat captain (E Millett) = Esther Millett a Cowlitz (Salishan) speaker born about 1835 Ray (193838-41 abbreviated as Ray 1938) cites Sam and Esther Milletrsquos daughter Emma Luscier as well as Mrs Bertrand both of Willapa Bay Washington Harrington (1981 [1942-43] mf rolls 17-18 abbreviated as Harrington 17[frame no] Harrington 18[frame no]) is mostly from Emma Luscier (we also cite from Harrington 1981 [1942-43] mf roll 20 abbreviated as Harrington 20[frame no]) While Emma Luscierrsquos father spoke Kathlamet like other Bay Center Chinookans of his generation he used mainly local Salishan at home with the result that Emma Luscier knew local Salishan and Chinuk Wawa but little Chinookan

Other sources and abbreviations The journals of Lewis and Clark are cited by date (for example Lewis and Clark 171806 journal entry dated January 7 1806) so that they may be located in any published edition Lewis and Clark Estimate refers to Lewis and Clark (1990474-488) Lewis and Clark Atlas to Moulton (1983) Lyman (1900320-321 abbreviated as Lyman 1900) cites Silas Smith a part-Clatsop resident of Astoria Oregon and Louis LaBonte Jr son of a Clatsop mother and a trader father as original sources Gairdner (184125-56) cites Michel La Framboise one of the original Astorians Other abbreviations Gibbs (186321-23) is abbreviated as Gibbs 1863 Silverstein (1990534) as Silverstein French and French (1998362-63) as French and French Transcription and spelling Where sufficient phonetic detail is available technical spellings are provided using the alphabets of the Handbook of North American Indians (Suttles 1990x-xi) These are either italicized (to denote phonemic spellings which for Chinookan names employ the phoneme symbols listed in Silverstein 1990533) or bracketed (to denote phonetic spellings that have not been subjected to phonemic analysis) For example under village no 3 the name gitɬaacutelilam is spelled phonemically the name [nutsʼalʼaacuteppunʼɬ] phonetically Supporting citations of names from historical and ethnographic sources are given in their original spellings arranged by date of original recording For example the two foregoing names are also represented by the original spellings GiLāacutelēlam (from Boas 1894) and Noacutet salaacuteppoacutelsquonh l (from Curtis 1911)
















































































































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Supplemental Materials for: Chapter 2: Cultural Geography ... · Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia River Table S 2.1 1 Supplemental Materials for: Chapter 2: Cultural Geography