Geographical names - T-V - Transcript (part 2).

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1951

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"Toppenish, a creek and a town near the central part of Yakima county, derived their names from the Indian word Qapuishlema, meaning people of the trail coming from the foot of the hill. (Handbook of American Indians Vol II Page 785). Captain George B. McClellan used a variant of the word by called the creek Sahpenis (Pacific Railway Reports, Vol 1, Pages 377-389) The same surveyors gave part of the creek the name Pisko which continued by James G. Swan in 1857 and the Surveyor General of Wash territory in 1859 (Northwest Coast Map and U. S. Public Documents Serial No. 1026). The Bureau of American Ethnology says Pisko means river bend and was the name of a Yakima band living on the Yakima River between Toppenish and Setass creeks (Handbook of American Indians Vol II Page 263 Meany)."

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