Derivation of "pasiooks"?

[Ross Clark]

>From Lewis & Clark Journals (Moulton, ed.) vol.5

p.434, 19/3/06 they are very fond of the dress of the whites which they wear in a similar manner when they can obtain them, except the shoe which I have never seen woorn by any of them. they [Chinooks] call us pâh-shish'-e-ooks, or cloth men. [also 438]

Moulton's footnote:

p.440 n.4: This is a Clatsop term [it]pašišxayukš, "blanket people".

Ross Clark

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> "Pasiooks" means "French". But I can't figure out how it gets 
> to CJ from French. What French word or words does it derive 
> from? Or is it in fact from a native language?
> 
> My guess was that it somehow came from "voyageur", but I'm 
> not terribly confident of this. If it came from that I would 
> have expected "poyachee" or something.
> 
> Can anyone enlighten me?
> 
> Masi,
> James
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