>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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