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pear before daylight.' All denied that the term designated a tribe." 

 The Umatilla and Kittitas (both Sahaptin) forms of the word (ibid., 

 p. 393) indicate that there can have been no misunderstanding. 



On the same page (ibid., p. 393) the word Tuschepaws or a variant 

 is parenthetically localized as the "Flatheads or a band thereof." 

 Hodge (1910, p. 853) lists the group seen by Lewis and Clark as 

 probably Kutenai; Gatschet states that Tushipa is a Shoshoni term 

 for tribes living to the north of them, including the Nez Perce as 

 well. It appears, according to Livingston Farrand, that the Lewis 

 and Clark usage would have included "Walla Walla and possibly 

 other Sahaptins." A number of usages of the word are given in the 

 Handbook. None points to real identification with a Salish group 

 except Hohilpe which Ray et al. (1938, p. 389) suggest as Colville. 



As to the NekETEmeux^ concerning whom Garth repeats Teit's 

 (1928, p. 96) "tradition," Ray et al. (1938, p. 392) failed to find 

 confirmation of the existence of the group, or of any Salish group 

 at The Dalles. His Umatilla informant, however, suggested the 

 Umatilla term nik^atimiux, "persons who do not act sensibly," as 

 applied to an alien people. It may well have been a usual reference 

 to the aboriginal transients of the great Dalles trading center. 



On page 53, Garth indicates his reasons for believing that the Pish- 

 quitpah or Pishquow were Wenatchi or Yakimaized Wenatchi. 

 Hodge (1910, pp. 262, 263), who used the same sources as Garth, 

 equates the Pishquow with the Wenatchi and the Pishquitpah with 

 the Sahaptin. Ray et al. (1938, pp. 389-90, note 19) cogently suggest 

 that the term is Sahaptin and cannot be identified with the Salishan 

 Wenatchi. 



No information appears to be available to cast further light on 

 the Met-cow-we which Garth identifies as the Methow from the lower 

 Methow River north of Wenatchee. Ray et al. have no data on them 

 but he found no evidence of Salish in the southern area, as has been 

 mentioned. Certainly the true Methow were not "true horse Indians" 

 as Garth states. 



8. Garth lists (p. 53) as evidence for a Salish migration into the 

 Yakima and Middle Columbia valleys : Rock slide graves, cist graves 

 lined with cedar boards and rock and, apparently, the carved figure 

 illustrated by Smith (1910, pp. 133, 160-161). First it should be 

 pointed out that these cremations (Sahaptin according to Garth) do 

 not contain contact material. Many of the pit and cedar cist burials 

 do. Hence there is, here, a temporal relationship. Yet there is not 

 as far as we are aware, other than Garth's Walla Walla (Wallula) 

 (p. 47) and the Wahluke and Sundale (pp. 44, 54) and a few other 

 secondary burials and partial cremations, any evidence of the ways by 

 which the large Sahaptin population of the area disposed of their 

 dead, despite a very full survey and much excavation in the McNary 



