"Neahkahnie" & CJ? [from another website]

[David D. Robertson]

[I'd assumed Neahkahnie was from Tillamook Salish.  --  Dave]

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September 27, 2000


Hi,Connie


I enjoyed reading your website (found it while looking through some of Tom
Doty's stuff).  I'm assuming you may have already discovered the real
meaning of the word 'neahkahnie' by now, but just in case...


I am a Clatsop descendant and Native cultural leader.


In our Chinook jargon: "Ne"=the, and "Kahnie"=mountain.  It was known to
our people as "The Mountain" because it demarcates the separation from the
south coast peoples.  They were quite different culturally and
lingustically from our northern coastal people and there were frequently
skirmishes with them.  "The Mountain" was and continues to be a popular
Vision Questing site for those seeking medicine to become healers and wise-
Elders.


By the way, the name Neahkahnie has also been frequently (mistakenly)
applied to our "Birthplace", Saddle Mountain by many early writers and
settlers in the area.  Again, it may have been called (or more likely
referred to) by that name simply as a way of pointing at and saying "that
is the mountain."


Konoway nika Tillicum ('all my relations'),
Jeff Painter
http://www.go.to/siwash