Why the southern boundary of Chinuk Wawa use?

[Bernard Schulmann]

While I have no way to prove this, I suspect that the Columbia river 
system and how it flows and makews for a good trade route is one aspect, 
the second geographic is the sheltered inland waters that run from Puget 
Sound northwards.   The coastal network and the Columbia network share 
numerous clear linkages.

So, I suspect that it is an issue of ease of movement of people and goods.

In all my work on early contact history of the interior of BC, it is 
clear that the Kamloops region was very clearly already linked in some 
manner to the coast via the Okanagan/Columbia system and through the 
Lillooet - Lakes route.    But nothing from Oregon other than along the 
Columbia or from within the Willemette (sp?) valley have an resonance in 
what I have dealt with.

Bernard

David Robertson wrote:

>To the best of my knowledge, Chinuk Wawa wasn't much used South of the 
>Oregon-California border.
>
>Why?
>
>Were intertribal relations of a different character from those farther 
>North?
>
>Was the economic situation different?
>
>Was there a different language of intercultural contact, e.g. was Chileno 
>(pidgin Spanish) widespread in northern California?
>
>Were Indian-newcomer relations different enough from those in Oregon, 
>Washington & BC to keep people from wanting an interethnic language?  Was 
>the anti-Indian violence or genocide that erupted very early in 
>California's history as a US state a factor, for example?
>
>Your thoughts are solicited.
>
>--Dave R
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