Your "tolo" memories requested

[Peter Webster]

>From a friend, Debbie, up at Suquamish (she's Kiowa-Cherokee, but married
to s'Klallam man)_:
>
I have heard the word. At Wilson High School in Tacoma and also at Garfeild.
(GRaduated in '70) But as an Indian word? Never heard it... we regularly
had "tolos", that is a dance where the girls asked the guys. I never did
cause I was too shy, but I remember the signs for them.





At 10:54 PM +0000 10/16/04, Ros' Haruo wrote:
>Today at a church convention (Evergreen Association of American Baptist
>Churches' annual meeting) to which I was a delegate, I had a chance to ask
>several women delegates if they knew and used the word tolo, what it meant,
>and when and where they had first learned it. They all agreed as to the
>meaning ("a dance where the girls ask the boys"). Three women had been
>raised in Seattle Public Schools and had first heard the term when they were
>in high school; two of these women are in their seventies, the third in her
>late sixties. One went to Garfield, two to Roosevelt. The fourth woman
>(currently my church's interim pastor) is in her fifties, and learned the
>term in *Pennsylvania* schools (she said her high school had had a "tolo").
>None of them had any prior notion that the term was Chinook.
>
>FWIW; my pastor's Pennsylvanian recollection strikes me as intriguing.
>
>lilEnd
>
>        ROS' Haruo / 2355 Eastlake Ave E / Seattle WA 98102 / Usono
>    lilandbr at scn.org / lilandbr at hotmail.com / tel 206-324-3176
>              ROS' Haruo = Leland Bryant ROSS
>
>
>
>
>>From: David Robertson <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
>>Reply-To: David Robertson <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
>>To: CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>>Subject: Your "tolo" memories requested
>>Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:01:47 -0400
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Those of you who know "tolo" as a word for a kind of dance, please email
>>me.  I'm writing a paper about this word & the institution it represents.
>>
>>- I'd like to know your earliest memory of hearing the word "tolo".
>>
>>- Did your parents remember going to "tolos" also?
>>
>>- Where did you / your parents grow up & hear about "tolos"?
>>
>>- Did you ever hear about "tolos" happening elsewhere?
>>
>>Thanks very much!
>>
>>--Dave R.
>>
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