Swil Kanim

[David Robertson]

I saw this Lummi violinist in the movie "The Business of Fancydancing", and
had to Google his name.

Possibly he's related to "Patkanim", the 19th-century Snoqualmie chief
whose name was also sometimes written "Pat Kanim".  The second version
implies that people reanalyzed his Indian name as Pat[rick] + the Jargon
word for "canoe".

I hadn't realized till now that this reinterpretation has survived.

--Dave R.

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