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1909, WA: “Taxes paid by prophetess”

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Another portrayal of Native people as weather forecasters. Coming well after the frontier era, this article translates the Chinuk Wawa that it quotes, into its readers’ English. Pilchuck Julia Jack circa 1910 (image credit: Snohomish Women’s Legacy) Pil[-]chuck, the name of a river, is incidentally ‘Red Water’ in Chinook Jargon. TAXES PAID BY PROPHETESS Pilchuck Julia, widow of the former chief of the Pilchuck tribe of Indians which has made Sn…

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1909, WA: “Taxes paid by prophetess”

Another portrayal of Native people as weather forecasters. Coming well after the frontier era, this article translates the Chinuk Wawa that it quotes, into its readers’ English. Pilchuck Julia Jack circa 1910 (image credit: Snohomish Women’s Legacy) Pil[-]chuck, the name of a river, is incidentally ‘Red Water’ in Chinook Jargon. TAXES PAID BY PROPHETESS Pilchuck Julia, widow of the former chief of the Pilchuck tribe of Indians which has made Sn…

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Chinook Jargon broke the news in 2 days ago on Friday, February 21, 2025.

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