Kiksht

[Sally Thomason]

Apologies if I'm repeating Tony or Rob, but here's one more comment
on Kiksht (relevant to the question of how far back the term goes):
in his 1984 article "The earliest Clackamas text" (International Journal
of American Linguistics 50), p. 265, Dell Hymes comments that
"Clackamas speakers of Columbia River origin, such as Mrs. Howard's
mother-in-law, called Clackamas by the same name as Wasco, Kiksht."

He says on p. 362 that Victoria Howard was born ca. 1870, so if her
mother-in-law was using the word a generation of so earlier, that
pushes it back to at least the mid-19th century.  No doubt much
earlier, of course.

If what Alan is mainly interested in is citations between 1909
and 1940, this isn't really relevant, though.

  -- Sally