Sahaptin is a Sahaptian language (of the Plateau Penutian family) spoken in southern Washington and northern Oregon. Sahaptianic language family is a group of languages of several Native American tribes on the Columbia Plateau region of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho in the northwestern United States. ... Plateau Penutian languages Plateau Penutian (also Shahapwailutan) is a family of languages in spoken in northern California, reaching through central-western Oregon to northern Washington and central-northern Idaho. ... State nickname: The Evergreen State Official languages None Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Governor Christine Gregoire (D) Senators Patty Murray (D) Maria Cantwell (D) Area - Total - % water Ranked 18th 184,824 km² 6. ... State nickname: Beaver State Official languages None Capital Salem Largest city Portland Governor Ted Kulongoski (D) Senators Ron Wyden (D) Gordon Smith (R) Area - Total - % water Ranked 9th 255,026 km² 2. ...
Bibliography
Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
Sahaptin distinguishes two varieties of mule deer as yáamash (the Rocky Mountain mule deer) and tl'álk (the fl-tailed deer of the Cascade Mountains), as well as the white-tailed deer, mountain goat, bighorn sheep, and pronghorn antelope (Hunn and Selam 1990:139-141).
It is noteworthy that Coyote (spilyáy) is the Sahaptin "culture hero," not Raven, as is characteristic of cultures to the north and west (Jacobs 1929, 1934; Beavert 1974).
Firstly, the Numic languages are distributed in a broad fan-like sweep of territory between southeastern California across Nevada and Utah to southern Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado, with the Comanche (a Shoshonean-speaking group) established on the Great Plains east of the Rocky Mountains.
Sahaptin is the language of tribes along the Columbia River east of The Dalles.
U.S. policy damaged languages The original languages of America were dealt a near fatal blow in the late 1800s and early 1900s when the United States forced generations of tribal children to attend boarding schools where they were isolated from their families and threatened with beatings and other violence for speaking their languages.
Language can be taught in school, but teachers say their best students are their own families who naturally pick up words and phrases while practicing other tribal traditions.
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