>I don't have an Okanogan dictionary here at home (there is an excellent one by 
>Tony Mattina), so I can't check it.  I might do that some day.  I really 
>doubt, however, that it is from the Okanogan language, since Lewis and Clark 
>didn't go that far north.  A more likely source would be the Chinook jargon, 
>which was widely spoken along the Columbia River.  It could be from some other 
>Interior Salish language also; those tribes lived along the upper Columbia,  


I just lifted the information from Moerman. He also mentioned the Montana, I 
think.

Bob
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