Dzunuqua WAKASHAN

[Mike Cleven]

At 11:14 AM 2/1/99 +0100, Henry Kammler wrote:
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>This is from Scott, from Neah Bay. I include a comment that David
>
>Robertson made on it, too.
>Henry
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>TlaXayam Henry,
>What you said is interesting.
>
>        In gill's dictionary the goblin is Se-at-co looks a lot
>like
>Dsoonoqua.  This could be the same thing.
>        This creature may be what is now called Sasquatch.  There
>
>is a
>Salish term for sasquatch.

Sesqac - from the Chehalis (BC; adjacent to the Harrison River) dialect of
Halqemeylem.  Tsiatko might be a lexical equivalent, but is from the lower
Skagit (or Nooksack?), and is thought to have been referring to demonize
people from the area of Chehalis (BC) and Hope and Yale, etc.