CJ items from Lalia Boone's "Idaho Place Names"
David Robertson
drobert at TINCAN.TINCAN.ORG
Sat Feb 27 21:43:40 UTC 1999
Aggipah Mt. "salmon" (really CJ? Or Shoshoni "salmon water"?)
Calipeen "rifle" W.H.Daugs
Camas... "camas root" [ ]
Cayuse... "Indian pony" FA
Cultus Creek "worthless" USFS
Delate Cr. "straight" WHD
Eena Cr. "beaver" WHD
Elip Cr. "first" WHD
Endook Cr. ? USFS (really CJ?)
Hiyu Cr. "many" [ ]
Holaki Knob "open" WHD
Hyaak Cr. "fast" WHD
Ipsoot Cr. "hidden" WHD
Issick Cr. "paddle/oar" WHD
Kanaka Flat "Hawai'ian" (from an 1870s Hawai'ian family)
Katsuck Cr. "middle" WHD
Kimta Cr. "last" WHD
Kinnikinnic Cr. "native smoking mixture" [ ]
Kiwa(h) Cr. "crooked" WHD
Klawa Cr. "slow" WHD
Klootch Mountain "(Indian) woman" [ ]
Lemoosh Cr. "fly [insect]" WHD
Melakwa Cr. "mosquito" WHD
Memaloose Island "dead/death" [ ]
Moolock Cr. "elk" WHD
Mowitch Cr. "deer" USFS
Owyhee... "Hawai'ian" ca. 1819; fur-trade group disappeared
Pamas Cr. "gold" WHD (really CJ?)
Papoose Cr. "suckling baby" USFS
Piah Cr. "fire" WHD
Potlatch... "give away" [ ]
Si-ah Cr. "far" USFS
Skookum Cr. "strong" [ ]
Skookumchuck Cr. "~ rapids" [ ]
Stria Gulch "small channel" WHD (really CJ?!)
Sypah Cr. "straight" WHD
Talapus Cr. "coyote" WHD
Tyee... "chief" [ ] Cf. "Targhee"!
Wapito Point "wapato root" [ ]
Yakala Cr. "here [is a] surprise" ('yakwa kwa') (really CJ?!)
NOTES.
WHDaugs / WHD was a USFS ranger active in naming features in the late
1920s and 1930s in northern Idaho.
FA was another USFS ranger; I did not note his full name.
USFS means that the United States Forest Service is credited with naming
the feature in question.
[ ] indicates a name whose precise history is not attested.
Other items are supplied with their own histories in this list.
All the items above are either (A) described as having CJ names or (B)
named with words known to be in CJ.
Dave
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