"Lumbee" word list.

[Galloway, Brent]

Hi Ardis,
When I was doing an ethnobotany of Upriver Halkomelem (a Salish language), I
found that huckleberries and blueberries are both actually in the Vaccinium
species, according to most botanists.  I worked with Nancy Turner who is an
ethnobotanist who has published a number of ethnobotanies and other works on
native uses of plants.  Since Upriver Halkomelem is spoken in a largely rain
forest ecosystem but also on the edge of a drier area adjacent to interior
Salish languages and since it also has many mountains where blueberries
grow, as well as lowland areas, there are 6 named types of blueberries and
two named types of huckleberries, as follows:
(Halkomelem names quoted in their practical orthography)
mo'lsem = tall marsh blueberry, bog blueberry, Vaccinium uliginosum
lhewqi':m = short gray marsh bluebberry with berries in bunches, probably
Canada blueberry, also known as velvet-leaf blueberry, Vaccinium
myrtilloides
le'th'ilets = tall gray mountain bluevberry, known to botanists as Alaska
blueberry, Vaccinium alaskaense
sXw'e'xixeq (X for orthography's underlined x, a uvular fricative) = small
low-bush gray mountain blueberry, Vaccinium caespitosum-the sweetest of the
mt. blueberries
xwi'xwekw' = tall sweet mountain blueberry, oval-leafed blueberry, could
also be Cascade blueberry, the former is Vaccinium ovalifolium, the latter
Vaccinium deliciosum
kwxwo':mels = shiny black mountain huckleberry/blueberry, Vaccini\eum
membranaceum
sqa':la, also skw'e'qwtses = red huckleberry, Vaccinium parvifolium.
We got samples, pressed and mounted them, oc course ate those we didn't
press, and the Sto':lo Nation containued to teach using the samples after I
left in 1980.
We decided that since the black variety were really not blue, and were
called either black huckleberries or shiny black blueberries, and since the
red huckleberries are never called blueberries, it was best to stick with
the huckleberry names for those that were actually black or red and not blue
at all, at least in teaching and in the ethnobotany put out in 1982.  In
that last source however we omitted the several letter abbreviations of
botanists' names that are usually given at the end of each scientific name
which shows who first called it by that name.  There are apparently some
botanists who do not agree that they all belong to the Vaccinium genus, but
I think that is a minority opinion.  At any rate, we thought quoting all the
botanist name abbreviations just made the ethnobotany more obscure, since it
was designed for teachers in a curriculum on Sto':lo culture and it made the
scientific names less likely to be useful and maybe would have mae the whole
book less used.  Any since one can look up the scientific names in the
botanical literature and find the botanist names and their obscure
abbreviations, there was no need to quote them all.
Now that I have moved to the prairies to teach at SIFC/U. of Regina, I find
I really miss the great variety of berries from the rainforest/Fraser Valley
of B.C.  I haven't yet learned what blueberries, are bound around here, but
not nearly as many types, I suspect  and perhaps some new types.
Hope this helps.  Best Regards,   Brent Galloway

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Ardis R Eschenberg [SMTP:are2 at acsu.buffalo.edu]
	Sent:	Sunday, January 23, 2000 9:43 PM
	To:	Siouan list
	Subject:	Re: "Lumbee" word list.

	Blueberries and huckleberries are related but different.  Blueberry
is
	genus vaccinium and huckleberries are genus gaylussacia.  More
relevantly
	the latter are smaller and seedier and purpler I think.
	Not linguistically relevant but important for pie.
	-Ardis