Iskit/Secret Island

[Mike Cleven]

>From: Pass/Kishkan/High Ground Press <high_ground at SUNSHINE.NET>
>Reply-To: Pass/Kishkan/High Ground Press <high_ground at SUNSHINE.NET>
>To: CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>Subject: Re: Iskit/Secret Island
>Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 08:18:07 -0700
>
>>From British Columbia Place Names, by G.P.V. and Helen B. Akrigg:
>
>Iskut River, flows S.W. into Stikine River. Possibly from the Nisgha (sic)
>word meaning "stinking"; otherwise of unknown origin.

Doesn't that book also attribute (falsely) "Coquitlam" as "land of the
stinking fish"?  Must have been a lot of stinking going on.  Probably all
those oolichans ;-=)
>
>And Mike, I think Brother Twelve's island was De Courcy!

Our Boston Sikhs should reference that story; one of the weirder bits of
post-Contact BC history.....

M
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