"Michael Walsh" conversation

[Maria Pascua]

Regarding Rev. Nick Sevenon
When I came back to Neah Bay from the C.J. workshop, I distributed cd's to a
couple of our local churches.  I asked some of our Makah ministers about
Rev. Nick Sevenon, and they remembered him, and also said people called him
'mayka waS' because he sang 'Are you Washed (in the blood)?' so often.  Both
Makah ministers thought that Rev. Sevenon married a Quinault woman, not a
S'Klallam lady as I had written in the background information in the
Makah-ized hymns I re-wrote.  It would be interesting to know from what
Tribe his wife came.  If she was Quinault, then they are much closer to the
Chinook then the Elwha.  Maybe Rev. Sevenon was a minister at Lower Elwha?
Or maybe he was affiliated with the American Indian Fellowship churches
which still holds meetings once a month rotating from the various Native
Churches in our area.
The Makah ministers I mentioned are Assembly of God affiliated; at the time
of Rev. Sevenon's ministry, most of the missionary efforts for the
Washington State Tribes would be classified under the 'Home Missions'
department of the Assemblies of God.  If find any further info I'll post
again.
Maria

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Subject: Re: "Michael Walsh" conversation

Quoting Ros' Haruo <rosharuo at gmail.com>:

> So "Michael Walsh" is Chinuk Wawa for English "[Rev.] Robert U. Washton"?
>  Haruo
>

Who?  Since my last posting on this topic, I went back and checked my notes,
making possible some clarification of what I previously said:

12/13/81, 6/27/82, Dellmore and Margie Croy, Grand Ronde.  Dellmore talked
Jargon at Hoquiam [WA] with Hattie Howeattle.  Dellmore also talked Jargon
there with a White missionary, Nick Sevenon [sic], who had learned it to
preach
to Indians up in Washington.  Dellmore originally met him through Joe Corner
[a
GR Indian also known as Joe Michelle:  he was married to Mary Shangretta
Holmes
Corner=Conner=Michelle, remembered by elders I worked with as the most
active
Indian Shaker at Grand Ronde; she lived part of the time at Hoquiam, I
assume
as part of her Shaker activity].  Dellmore and he [Nick S.] used to write
letters to one another in Jargon [while Dellmore thought that those letters
must still be around, I never did manage to get to see them].  Nick S.'s
"Indian name" was "maikElwaS" [stress over -ai-; E=schwa, S=shibilant].

Several interesting points come now to mind.  Dellmore and Margie DIDN'T say
"Michael Walsh"--that seems to have been me (or my brain re-processing old
information) "filling in the blanks."  The name as I originally recorded it
is
closer to "maika wash" than that; possibly, Dellmore or Margie (don't
remember
now who exactly gave me the name) didn't recognize it as Jargon (of which
Dellmore was a speaker, Margie not), thinking it was from some Washington
indigenous language.  Anyway, this is, if not a smoking gun, pretty strong
confirmation that Rev. Nick Sivonen (corrected spelling; this name is in
Harrington's 1942 Washington state fieldnotes) was indeed "Maikawash"
(<"maika
wash (kopa Jesus pilpil))."  Still haven't been able to find out anything
more
about Rev. Nick Sivonen, however.

Another point of interest is the possible Shaker connection.  As a
missionary in
western Washington state at that time (30's-40's), Rev. Sivonen certainly
would
have encountered Shakers.  Perhaps he befriended them?  Hung out with them?
Anyone our there know anything about Hattie Howeattle?  Nick Sivonen?Henry

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