Interesting use of "siwash"

[David D. Robertson]

>From Strickland, Ron.  "Alaskans:  Life on the last frontier".  Harrisburg,
PA:  Stackpole, 1992.

Page 174 (Anna Hobbs Purdy of Chicken, Alaska, talking):  "He was half-
Eskimo, a 'siwash' to most of these people [in Fairbanks]."

There's also this on page 270 from Marleeta Davis Wallace of Metlakatla,
AK:  "Then we broke off pieces of roasted salmon and ate them with boiled
potatoes and with hooligan [eulachon] grease from Nass River in B.C."
[parenthetical remark in original]