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<DIV>On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 George Lang <<A
href="mailto:george.lang@UALBERTA.CA">george.lang@UALBERTA.CA</A>>
writes:</DIV>
<DIV><BR>> One thing I find puzzling about the purported Ojibway </DIV>
<DIV>> origin of _tutush_ was that circa 1790 Meares used </DIV>
<DIV>> the word, presumably in its guise as "breast", for </DIV>
<DIV>> Tatoosh Island off Cape Flattery. I think we all suppose
</DIV>
<DIV>> that the Ojibway and Cree came in through the continental<BR>> fur
trade One of those little mysteries....<BR></DIV>
<DIV>I dunno.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I think that saying Ojibway and Cree came in through the fur trade is about
as close to the truth as we're going to get without time travel, because:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>A few did come West with the fur trade through employment of the Hudson's
Bay Company/the North West Company/the American Fur Company. There was an
Abenaki/<FONT>Abenaquois man who was living -- with family -- in what is now
southwest Washington state in 1827, Pierre Charles dit Langlois, fomerly of
Sorel Québec</FONT>.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>And in November of 1824, an expedition was sent out from Fort Vancouver on
the Columbia River "to explore the shore line of Puget Sound and the waters of
the Fraser River. The party was comprised of McMillan, three clerks and an
interpreter, 36 men and an Iroquois Freehunter and his slave." Why an
Iroquois Freehunter? Because "<FONT>he was acquainted with the coast line
for part of the way."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Just my two cents worth... :)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>... <-- and a few grains of salt.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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