Snoqualmie
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Anglicization of Lushootseed sdukʷalbixʷ (“people of the moon”), the autonym of the Snoqualmie people, a proper noun derived from Lushootseed sɬukʷalb (“moon”). In early maps of the Pacific Northwest, the indigenous etymon was anglicized as "Snoqualmoo", a spelling no longer used.[1][2][3]
Noun
[edit]Snoqualmie (plural Snoqualmie or Snoqualmies)
- A member of an indigenous Coast Salish people of North America native to the Snoqualmie and Skykomish river valleys of central Washington.
Proper noun
[edit]Snoqualmie
- The dialect of Southern Lushootseed spoken by the Snoqualmie people.
- Ellipsis of Snoqualmie Indian Tribe.
- Ellipsis of Snoqualmie River.
- Ellipsis of Snoqualmie Pass.
- Ellipsis of Snoqualmie Mountain.
- Ellipsis of Snoqualmie Falls.
- Ellipsis of The Summit at Snoqualmie, a ski resort located at Snoqualmie Pass, Washington.
- Ellipsis of Snoqualmie Casino, a casino with additional entertainment, dining, and meeting facilities, owned and operated by the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe in Snoqualmie, Washington on its reservation territory.
References
[edit]- ^ Edmond S. Meany (1922 April) “Origin of Washington Geographic Names (Continued)”, in The Washington Historical Quarterly[1], volume 13, number 2, →JSTOR, archived from the original on 2023-04-14, page 127 (pg. 280 in book version):
- SNOQUALMIE, the name of a tribe of Indians, of a river, a pass through the Cascade Range, and a sawmill town near the beautiful falls, also of the same name, in King and Snohomish Counties. On most of the earlier maps the spelling was "Snoqualmoo." The river joins with the Skykomish River near Monroe, forming the Snohomish River. The white men have softened the native word Sdoh-kwahlb-bhuh; which refers to the legend that their people came from the moon. Sdoh-kwahlb means moon. (Charles M. Buchanan, Indian Agent at Tulalip, in Names MSS. Letter 155.) Colonel J. Patton Anderson visited the falls in July, 1852. He was accompanied by Lieutenant Floyd Jones, of the United States Infantry Only one white man had visited them before that. (James G. Swan, Northest Coast, page 395.)
- ^ Tulalip Tribes of Washington (2017 March 30) “sɬukʷalb”, in Lushootseed: The Language of Puget Sound – Lushootseed Dictionary[2], retrieved 2023-12-10
- ^ Ruby, Robert H., Brown, John A. (1992) A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest (The Civilization of the American Indian Series; 173)[3], Revised edition, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 December 2023, page 214:
- The Snoqualmies are said to have carried the designation "people of the moon,' and also "crowned with snow." They believed themselves to have been transformed from the mythical Beaver. Unlike most other natives of the Puget Sound Basin, they were well organized, but such a degree of organization allowed less individual freedom for their people.