"horse" = -/kiu - tan

[Jim Holton]

Dave, Nayka tEmtEm pus "Cr" ukuk tEnas pus "Cree."  George Gibbs yaka wawa:

"Mr.Archibald R.McLeod,a chief factor of the Hudson ’s Bay Company,in
the year 1828,while crossing the mountains with a pack train,was overtaken
by a snow storm,in which he lost most of his animals,including a noted bob-
tailed race-horse.His Canadian followers,in compliment to their chief,or
‘bourgeois,’named the place the Pass of the Siskiyou,-an appellation subse-
quently adopted as the veritable Indian name of the locality,and which thence
extended to the whole range,and the adjoining districts."

Lunas, "Siskiyou" ukuk "missouri patois."


LaXayEm, Jim



David Robertson wrote:

> (SIskiyu = khiyutEn lhaska tq'op ya upuch.)
> (Siskiyou = bob-tailed horse.)
>
> Uk Edward H. Thomas ya ChInuk bUk na t'u'wEn, ya wawa khakwa:
> My copy of Edward H. Thomas' book on Chinook says:
>
> "SIS'-KI-YOU ( [comes from] Cr [ = a language which Thomas doesn't
> identify] )
>
> NEsayka dret kEmtEks, "Siskiyou" ixt California IlIhi ya nim.
> We know for certain that "Siskiyou" is a California place name.
>
> Ukuk tEnEs-wawa chaku khapa California shawash wawa?
> Does this word come from a Californian Indian language?
>
> Dreht yaxka khakwa pus wawa "tl'unEs-Ikta khiyutEn" khapa ukuk wawa?
> Does it mean "some kind of horse" in that language?
>
> Ukuk munk nEsayka nanIch uyXEt qha lhatEwa tEnEs-hayu khiyutEn...
> Does this show us a path that some horses took...
>
> pus chaku-makuk khapa ChInuk IlIhi, Cayuse IlIhi, Numipu IlIhi?
> to be traded to Chinook territory, Cayuse territory, Nez Perce land?
>
> Alta na lhatEwa.
> Dave
>
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