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Wishram|ˈwɪʃræm|
Also 9 Wish-ham.
[ad. Sahaptin Wíšxam.]
a. (A member of) an American Indian people living in the southern part of the state of Washington.
b. The language spoken by this people, a dialect of Upper Chinook.
[1836W. Irving Astoria I. 109 We would make special mention of the village of Wish-ram.] 1855Rep. Commissioner Indian Affairs 1857 351 They are divided into three principal bands, namely: the Wish-hams, Click-a-hut, and Skien bands. 1907Amer. Anthropologist IX. 533 The Indians formerly living on the northern shore of Columbia river..are known by their Yakima and Klikitat neighbours..as Wúcxam, which, in its anglicized form of Wishram, or Wishham, is their common appellation today. Ibid. 535 The Wishram is prevailingly sonant in its use of stops. 1930Spier & Sapir Wishram Ethnography 153 The Wishram were one of the earliest groups known to explorers of the Columbia River Basin... Only a few Wishram still remain. 1962Anthropol. & Human Behavior (Anthropological Soc. Washington) 25 ‘Cussing out’, a Wishram Chinook's English label for a class of aboriginal speech events. 1972Language XLVIII. 378, I have drawn extensively upon my field research on the Wishram-Wasco dialect of Chinook. |