Catagorical answers to Comments Upon Proposed Testimony from Johnny Buck in Connection with the Yakima Claim (part 4).
Date
1953-09-18
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Abstract
"10-What are the duties of a 'uncha.' The Wanapum informants pronounce this yantcha, with a slight trace of an e preceding the y. It is a word so ancient that it is unfamiliar to the Yakima informants and interpreters. The Wanapums have no word for chief. Their later-day adaptation of Yakima words like 'appuls' for apples and 'gasleen' for gasoline includes a Yakima word for chief. It is me ough. This is the same name they apply to a boss of a ranch, a foreman, or a man like an Indian agent. The Yakimas refer to the Indian agent as meough."
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12 sheets 8.5 x 11 inch. Typed.