almota

[Scott Tyler]

It seems the Nez Perce connection is the strongest.
Scott
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From: "Kelvin Saxton" <ksaxton at FASTMAIL.FM>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: almota


> Hi Ros and All!
>
> Now you're speaking of the territory where I was raised. There was once
> a small but busy town at Almota, nothing left now but the giant grain
> elevators and barge dock. Good fishing though!
>
> I don't remember any history about the name but I do remember that Lewis
> and Clark camped there on their way west (about this time of year), and
> that there are three nearby village sites attributable to either the
> Alpaweyma or Almitipu bands of the Nez Perce.
>
> It's dry and hot. No wild strawberries grow there. Do you suppose Almota
> is a varient and/or treatment of Almitipu? Sorry to say, I never learned
> a lick of Nez Perce while living in Pullman. (Bad anthropologist...no
> biscuit!)
>
> Who knows? I'd never made the connection before (not learning CW till I
> moved West).
>
> hiyu masi!
>
> ~Kelvin
>
>
> PS... Skimmed the Web after writing this note. A report entitled "Nez
> Perce use of the Southeast Washington Sub-basin: Draft Report prepared
> under contract for Nez Perce Tribe Department of Fisheries Resource
> Management, Watershed Division, by Josiah Blackeagle Pinkham" (published
> this year) notes that "...the Tucannon, Wawawai, Penewawa, Kahlotus,
> Palouse, Alpowai, Pataha, Almota, Anatone Washtucna, Touchet, Walla
> Walla and others are attempts to pronounce the Indigenous names for
> these areas."
>
>
>
>
>
> ---
>   Kelvin Saxton
>   ksaxton at fastmail.fm
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Ros' Haruo" <lilandbr at HOTMAIL.COM>
> To: CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:34:17 +0000
> Subject: almota
>
> On our recent Trailways excursion from Seattle via Spokane to Boise,
> Paula
> and I passed a junction in the Palouse where the main drag bore left and
> the
> smaller road that went straight on had a sign reading "Almota 20" (I
> think
> it was 20, anyway some number of miles). I had never heard of this town
> but
> immediately thought "Strawberries". Is some form of this current at GR?
> (I've seen various spellings in the anglicizing books, almota, amoteh
> etc.,
> and I think somewhere I saw "lamoteh" (which is why I thought of the
> place
> just now in the context of "(l)appelah", "(la)p'ush" etc.
>
> I can find no information on the town of Almota, Washington, if there be
> such, but there is a Port of Almota on the Snake:
>
> http://www.portwhitman.com/Almota.php?index=3
>
> haluo = lilEnd
>
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