| Show Till CHINOOK JMm Cft IOCS ACTS Bf LATINO TO TILE AlDHIOIMS Ol WASIttNOTON One of Um most interesting facto iu connection with this country says n Tacoma corrc < iocdcnt of an exchange is the retention of the early Indian names that wre on glu IIy apphcd to its rivers and valleys The Indians of Washington arc related by many ties of blood and association to all the tribes Cf Canadiati northwest Each trite lias its own peculiar language and customs but they all pealv Chinook Chi-nook Tradition cays that Chinook was invented a century ago by a Canadhnbcotch Inlf brttd Inn In-n lies veins ran so many different strains ef Indian blojd alFord ini him such a aricty of red relation that he was forsooth lrompcllul to get up u language of his own that they all might be able to uaderctand So betook be-took a little Itlackfbot mixed it with a trifle of Crow < ea oned it with bad French worked In a Dundee accent and called it Chinook lie provided that the male Indian thoil1be known as a mash and the female Indian as a Klootch nnn and as tim SlwlIhes aLl the Klootohmen worked themselves westward and over thetrountry thej earned tills invented language with them and estabhhed It throughout the northwest There are Imut ors ntid tnplvrs and lumbermen who can make themselves well understood through Chinook everjwhcro they go In the distant backwoods they are wjuaB men that h I wIth men So ho have taken Indian wiveswho have really forgotten their mother tongue iml can now speak nothing tut Chinook Tlie Indian proper namts 0 iJeutifull scattered ocr Wish tugtoii aru all Chinook IJallltt and originally possessed mme peculiar Isniflcauce Suowqualmle for in staiuxmeant crowned 1th snow aka tt iras the name of the wildcat 5lilliamLi signified quiet IIr ooktack intHiit north oftheinountiUu TCtwiualli meant routli of the mountain Thus and many other iiaine tune ol him picturcMjue in their signUI I call1C and beautiful in their sound arc now reServed as the name of particular geographical features Ukintgane soft and deep is tho name of a lake Yaklmn white pebbles Venatchie swiftly run nlnir ann name of mountain ctrearaa Almost all of the counties of die States are called by names derived from Indian stories Tacoma wa the name of a tribe Seattle that of a great chief rind when the white people determined to call their town after him hL tribe came in a body to the common council and begged them refrain Their request in oheda long explanation of their religious beliefs from whIch it ap puansl that they were worhlpt > en > IJrj I uf thcircnixitors andjliat the dead Seattle wars to them a gnat god They < Klleo that every time his name was mentioned bo turned in his grave I can but feel as if under lore clr urnitancc their request should have been grantolfor If they really believe that the old man is revolving every time the worst Seattle brakl reflections quite too horrible for expression must In continually arising aris-ing in their inindn To think of a mattie haughty Indian chieftain whirling In ills tomtom like nlrazz fw Is IsccrUinJv aotbin > but agreeable agree-able to hose whose religion consists iu enpre Moas of reverence for his memory |
