'bishop of Columbia' [BC?] 1860 "Journal": God the Father = the Sun

[Dave Robertson]

>From page 34 of this book...

The Great Gold Fields of Cariboo: With an Authentic Description, Brought
Down to the Latest Period, of British Columbia and Vancouver Island
By Hazlitt, William Carew, 1834-1913, William Carew Hazlitt
Published by Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1862

...comes this quotation:

"Touching religious matters, the Bishop of Columbia, in his _Journal_
(1860), says:--

'Most of the Indians profess to know of the Sack[-]ally Tyhee Papa, Great
Chief Father. They point upwards; they say He sees all, is all-wise, and
strong and good, and never dies. I found out to-day, from two Indians of
this place, that Skatyatkeitlah is the same as Squaquash Suokum, or the sun.
The sun is the Sackally Tyhee Papa. Klanampton, the moon, is his wife, and
the stars their children.' "

I'll try to figure out who this 'bishop of Columbia' was.  The tribal
language being quoted alongside Jargon looks like Shuswap (Secwepemctsin) or
Thompson River Salish (Nlaka'pamux).  It's a bit hard to narrow down since
the book surveys almost all of BC for the newcomer.  

It's interesting to see evidence of CJ being used in the Interior so soon
after the Gold Rush of 1858.  

--Dave

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