Yet more from Jones, Robert F. (ed.) "Annals of Astoria"

[Tony Johnson]

LaXayEm,

Regarding "Kelemooks"  --That really is "t7ilimuks" (Tillamook) or "the people of ni7ilim" (the Nehalem river in NW Oregon).  -7ilim is the root and -uks is of course the plural for people.  

ALqi ntsayka wawa--Tony J.
Sawash Ili7i
Grand Ronde


>>> Dave Robertson <tuktiwawa at NETSCAPE.NET> 01/17/02 09:21PM >>>
Lhaxhayam,

Page 86:  <Kelemooks> and <clemels>:  "Visited by 3 Canoes with the chief of the _Chelwits_, who traded (as well as a few Kelemooks) about 38 Beaver skins*"  The footnote to this paragraph asserts that "'Kelemooks' may have been an alternative rendering of clemels, the elk skin armor".  I suggest an identification rather with the "Clemax", that is Tillamook, ethnic group.


-- Dave
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"Asking a linguist how many languages she knows is like asking a doctor how many diseases he has!" -- anonymous



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