Tatoosh Island = a Makah man's name?

[Dave Robertson]

Do I understand right that there was a Makah headman by the name of Tatoosh, and that that island is so called after him and his family?

Somewhere along the line I've gotten the impression that the name has nothing to do with Chinuk-Wawa.

-- Dave


George Lang <george.lang at UALBERTA.CA> wrote:

>Those who might want to follow up on Anthony's precis could check
>out the relevant passages in Peter Bakker's book on Michif, A
>Language of our Own.  Peter had to sort out the connections between
>Cree and Ojibway in order to make some sense of the Indian
>component of Michif.
>
>We should probably throw _siskiyou_ into the batch, right?
>
>One thing I find puzzling about the purported Ojibway origin of
>_tutush_ was that circa 1790 Meares used the word, presumably in its
>guise as "breast", for Tatoosh Island off Cape Flattery.  I think we all
>suppose that the Ojibway and Cree came in through the continental
>fur trade   One of those little mysteries....
>
>George
>
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