www.hiyu.com - West Seattle Hi-Yu Festival

[Mike Cleven]

Whilst searching for a domain name for my Chinook site, which has lived
at members.home.net for far too long and needs a permanent name (all the
skookum.* ones are gone!) I stumbled across http://www.hiyu.com, the
homepage of the West Seattle Hi-yu Festival.  Their intro page has the
following tidbit:

Hi-Yu is a non-profit organization, established in 1934 by
                   West Seattle's service clubs to produce a summer
festival
                   to promote the West Seattle Community.

                   The annual Hi-Yu Summer Festival is held the third
week
                   of July. Dozens of events occur throughout the
                   neighborhood during this week. The kick-off event is
the
                   Seattle Seafair Pirates Landing at Alki Beach, and it
                   finishes over a week later with the Miss West Seattle
Hi-Yu
                   Scholarship Program. Named in 1934, in a community
                   contest, Hi-Yu means "Big Time" in Chinook jargon.

                   The next scheduled Hi-Yu meeting is Monday, July 31,
                   2000 @ 7:15pm, at WS Senior Center.


A mistranslation, sort of, according to orthodox jargon lexicons; but
what the heck is orthodox about the Jargon anyway?  As noted on my site
and still current in BC in some areas, a "hiyu" is a party, an event;
"the July" in old Lillooet was a combination of the Glorious Fourth and
Dominion Day, and was also known as "the Big Hiyu".  I thought this was
just a Canyonism, but it turns out it has/had much the same meaning in
the Puget Sound Jargon; and when the society was founded in 1934 there
were obviously a number of Jargon speakers still around the Seattle
area.  Wonder if any of those seniors meeting on Monday know any?

Thinking of grabbing hiyu.net and/or hiyu.org if no one else does first
(ahem); not as broadly public a name as the already-taken skookum.com,
skookum.org and skookum.net, but less cumbersome than the
www.skookumhiyu.com I was thinking of.  Terry's suggested
skookumwawa.com to me and I'd thought of skookumillahee.com (or rather
skookum_illahee.com) but "keep it simple, stupid", right?  Anyone got
any thoughts?  Any other Jargon words that might make good domain
names.  I can simply make a Jargon subdirectory on my
cayoosh.org/cayoosh.net webspace but I think it's appropriate that it
might have its own domain.

And none of y'all run off with that hiyu.net on me, now, y'hear?

Mike