Wishramn.
/ˈwɪʃram/ 1. (A member of) an American Indian people living in the southern part of the state of Washington.
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Multnomah1804
Palouse1827
Ohlone1831
Haida1841
Shasta1843
Karok1851
Wiyot1851
Pomo1852
Hupa1853
Modoc1854
Wishram1855
Yuki1858
Nisenan1873
Achumawi1874
Takelma1881
Shastan1910
Yana1910
Yahi1911
Pomoan1979
1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 109 We would make special mention of the village of Wish-ram.]
1855 Rep. Commissioner Indian Affairs 1857 351 They are divided into three principal bands, namely: the Wish-hams, Click-a-hut, and Skien bands.
1907 Amer. Anthropologist 9 533 The Indians formerly living on the northern shore of Columbia river..are known by their Yakima and Klikitat neighbours..as Wúcxam, which, in its anglicized form of Wishram, or Wishham, is their common appellation today.
1930 Spier & Sapir Wishram Ethnography 153 The Wishram were one of the earliest groups known to explorers of the Columbia River Basin... Only a few Wishram still remain.
1962 Anthropol. & Human Behavior (Anthropological Soc. Washington) 25 ‘Cussing out’, a Wishram Chinook's English label for a class of aboriginal speech events.
2. The language spoken by this people, a dialect of Upper Chinook.
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Chinook18..
Siwash1902
Wishram1907
1907 Amer. Anthropologist 9 535 The Wishram is prevailingly sonant in its use of stops.
1972 Language 48 378 I have drawn extensively upon my field research on the Wishram-Wasco dialect of Chinook.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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