This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...It is not supposed that this plant was at any time cultivated by these Indians. I was informed that the Sho-wha'-pa-mooh name of this native tobacco (also now applied to the imported tobacco) is simin-min-hooh'-a-looh. The N-tla-ka-pe-mooh name of the native tobacco was variously given to me as skuk-ioai'-al-uh and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...It is not supposed that this plant was at any time cultivated by these Indians. I was informed that the Sho-wha'-pa-mooh name of this native tobacco (also now applied to the imported tobacco) is simin-min-hooh'-a-looh. The N-tla-ka-pe-mooh name of the native tobacco was variously given to me as skuk-ioai'-al-uh and skwa-yU'-ow. The ordinary custom of mixing the leaves of the bear-berry (Arctostaphylos Vva-ursi) or bark of the red osier dog-wood (Curnus stolonifera) with tobacco in smoking, is also practised by the Shushwaps. The principal fibre plant employed in the construction of nets, cord, thread, etc., was the large Asclepias (A. speciosa), named in N-tla-kfi-pe-mooh sptp'-sum, from which the name of Spatsum Station on the railway is derived. The common nettle of the country (JJrlica Lyallii) was also doubtless used for similar purposes, as mentioned by Dr. Boas. Historical Notes. Respecting the origin of the Shuswap people or the quarter whence they arrived to take possession of what is now their territory, I am unable to offer anything of definite value. The circumstance that the chief work of their principal mythological hero, Skil-dp, consisted in descending the Fraser to open a way for the salmon, may be supposed to embody the history of some early conflict with the people living along that river for the possession of its valuable fisheries. This may be accounted a legitimate conjecture, but is certainly at present nothing more. It may further be noted, however, that the name given to the place where the Indian reservation on the Thompson now is (forty-two miles up that stream), is susceptible of a concordant explanation. This name is Tsuk-tsuk-kwalik', said to mean the "place of red trees," and refers to the red colour of the bark of Pi...
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