The mystery of the Stuwix - an Athapaskan or Chinookan peopleamongst the Secx'emc

[Mike Cleven]

David Robertson wrote:
>
> Lha'Xiyem.
>
> The story of the people who left the Columbia Gorge area to resettle in
> the north around the current Washington - BC boundary is known to many
> indigenous people of this region, it seems.
>
> The "Wishram" people apparently said that these folks were Salish, or am I
> misremembering from Sapir's and Spier's ethnography?

Did they catalogue the Stuwix placenames in question, perhaps?  Seems
like a valuable source for what little must be known about them; traces
of the language, at least.

Wasn't there another historic-era people from western Puget
Sound-Portland Canal who disappeared in recent times?  Not that this is
connected....