(a) Emmett, where are you? (b) ChInUk Wawa map of the NW

[Mike Cleven]

At 12:56 AM 12/3/98 -0800, you wrote:
>LhaXiyEm, na-tIlXEm,
>
>(a) Emmett, how did those photos from the Jargon Gathering come out?
>
>(b) As we've discussed several times, a collection of the Jargon
>place-names in the NW would be good to put together.  I think you've
>worked on this some, Jim?  And Luistxo in the Basque country is very
>interested in displaying native-language maps on their website.
>
>If only as a very useful exercise, I'm interested in helping collect Wawa
>place names and mapping them on a single map.  For me it'd be fun to pore
>over ridiculously detailed maps, collecting the information.  (That's the
>kind of fella I am.)  You might be very surprised at how many ChInUk Wawa
>names you'll find, reaching pretty far inland.
>
>Here in Spokane County, we have the town of Tum Tum, for example.  And not
>so far away, according to some cool free maps the US Forest Service was
>giving out in Wilbur, WA, this summer, there's Skookum Puss Butte;
>Klipchuck; and about 30 other names in an area the size of a county.

OK - here's starters (above and beyond what's in Terry's book q.v.):

Tenas Lake (near Pemberton BC)
Eskom Mountain (near Lytton BC, just north of Stein Peak; given incorrectly
on one OCR'd map as Askom Mountain; from "iskum")
Ipsoot Mountain (just E. of Pemberton BC)
Cayoosh Range, Cayoosh Creek (whether this is a bona fide Wawa word I no
longer know; at one time I was pretty sure it was, though)
Mount Skook Jim - headwaters of the Stein Valley; I think this is an OCR
mistake on my map, and should be Skookum Jim, who was one of the
co-discoverers of the Klondike Goldfield in 1897.
Kanaka Mountain, Kanaka Bar, Kanaka Creek - the mountain and bar are near
Boston Bar; Kanaka Creek is near Haney BC
Boston Bar, China Bar (short for Bostonman Bar, Chinaman Bar)
Spuzzum (from spatsum; again whether this is 'pure Wawa' or not is
debatable; Spuzzum is nonetheless one of BC's most famous placenames....)

Non-Chinook placenames are actually considerably more common in BC; I never
did get around to fleshing out the native placenames part of my website
because of the vastness of the proposition.....