BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Blanchet (F. N.) — Continued. 



gowns. Their destination was Fort Vancouver, 

 which they reached November 24, 1838. 



Vancouver was at this time the principal fort 

 of the Hudson Bay Company, and this the 

 missionaries made their headquarters while for 

 four years they toiled unaided up and down 

 the wide domain of their mission. The letters 

 of the fathers de.scriblng their work and sur- : 

 roundiugs are full of interest and afford vahi- 

 ahle material for history. They learned the j 

 Indian tongue and taught the natives the sim- 

 ple prayers and doctrines of the church in their 

 own language; Father Demers attending more 

 to the Indians, and Father Blanchet to the 

 Canadians. 



With the rapid growth of the missions tlie 

 Holy See, at the request of the Bishops of 

 Quebec and Baltimore, erected Oregon into a 

 vicariate-apostolic (December 1, 1843), appoint- 

 ing Father Blanchet its vicar-apo.stolic. Tlie 

 papal briefs arrived on November 4, and Father 

 Blanchet, setting out for Canada, received his 

 con.secration in Montreal at the hands of the 

 Archbishoj) of Quebec. Thence he went to 

 Rome, wliicb he reached in January, 1846, and 

 set before the Pope the great wants of liis 

 vicariate. 



At his intercession, in July, 1846, after the 

 accession of Pius IX., the vicariate of Oregon 

 was ei-ected into an ecclesiastical province, 

 with the three sees of Oregon City, Walla 

 Walla (now Wallula), and Vancouver's Island. 

 The Rt. Rev. F.N. Blanchet was appointed to 

 Oregon City ; the Itt. Rev. A. M. A. Blanchet, 

 his brother, to Walla Walla, and the Rt. Rev. 

 M. Demers to Vancouver Island. The neces- 

 sity of thi.s division may he judged from tlie 

 result of the missionaries' labors at tlie end of 

 1844. Most of tlie Indian tribes of the Sound, 

 (Jaledouia, and several of the Rocky Mountains 

 and of Lower Oregon, had been won over to the 

 faith. Nine mis.sions bad bren founded— live 

 in Lower Oregon and four at the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. Eleven churches and cliapels had been 

 erected — live in Lower Oreg(m, two in Cale- 

 donia, and four at theRocky Mountains. There 

 were two educational establisbinents — one for 

 boys and tlie otlier for girls. There were fl fteeii 

 priests, .secular and regular, besides the sisters. 

 These figures may not look large to-day, but 

 they were large at the time, and of great siguif- 

 i('aiic(^ ill a rapidly populating and growing 

 rejiidii. 



Meanwhile the archbishop of Oregon City 

 had been very active abroad in aid of his new 

 jirovince and its dioceses. He sought help on 

 all sides, and returned in August, l847, accom- 

 panied by a colony of twenty ]»er.sons, compris- 

 ing seven sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, 

 three Jesuit fathers, three lay brothers, live 

 secular priests, two deacons, and one cleric. 



In 1855 the arclibisbop started for Soutli 

 America to collect for his needy diocese. He 

 traversed Chile, Bolivia, and Peru, returning in 

 1857 after a successful exjiedition. Two years 

 later he departed for Canada, returuiug tlie 



Blanchet (F. N.) — Coutinued. 



same year with twelve sisters of the Holy 

 Names of Jesus and Mary for Portland, two 

 Sisters of St. Ann for Victoria, some others for 

 Vancouver, and three priests. 



In 1866 the archbishop attended the second 

 Plenary Council of Baltimore, and, ever watch- 

 ful for the cares of his diocese, returned With 

 one priest and eight sisters. On J uly 18, 1869, 

 he celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of liis 

 ordination to the priesthood, and four months 

 later left for Rome to assist at the Vatican 

 council, where he met his early lirother mis- 

 sionaries. He returned to Portland in 1870. 



On July 1, 1879, Archbishop Seghers, the 

 coadjutor, arrived at Portland, and was received 

 by the venerable founder of the diocese, sur- 

 rounded by his clergy and faithful flock. In a 

 few words of touching simplicity- and sweetness 

 the aged prelate received and welcomed his 

 youthful colaborer to the field where he had 

 planted and sowed and reaped so well. After 

 initiating Archbishop Seghers into the work of 

 the diocese, the venerable man chose wholly to 

 retire from the scene of his active labors, and 

 published liis farewell pastoral on the 27th day 

 of February, lS>ii..—2IaUet. 



Boas {Dr. Franz). Chinook [Jargon] 

 songs. 



In Journal of Am. Folk-lore, vol. 1, pp. 220- 

 226, Boston and New Vork, 1888, 8°. (Pilling.) 



Thirty-eight songs, one verse each, with 

 English translation, pp. 221-224.— Three songs 

 with music, p. 225. — One song iu Chinook, 

 except the last line, which is in Tlingit, p. 225.^ 

 Glossary of Chinook words (74), alphabetically 

 arranged, pp. 225-226. 



Notes on the Chinook language. By 



Franz Boas. 



In American Anthropologist, vol. 6, pp. 55-63, 

 Washington, 1893. 8\ ( Pilling. ) 



Tribal divisions, p. 55. — Characters used to 

 render the sounds of the ( 'hinook language, pp. 

 55-56. — Discussion of the language, p. 57. — 

 Genders, with examples, pp. 57-58. — Plurals, 

 with examples, pp. 58-59. — Cases, with exam- 

 ples, pp. 59-60.— Numerals, p. 60.— Verbs, pp. 

 60-62.— Word composition, pp. 62-63. 



— [Myths, legends, and texts in the 

 Chinookan languages.] 



Manuscrijits, four note books, sm. 4'= ; iu tue 

 library of the Bureau of Ethnology. 



Note book no. 1. Texts, etc., in the Chinook 

 dialect :Cikla. a creation myth, ji. l;Ckulliulotl, 

 the salmon spear, p. 15; The panther and the 

 stick, p. 26.— Wasko text: Coyote anu eagle, p. 

 32.— Clackamas text, p. 33.— Katiamat texts: 

 Ak'asqenaqena. p. 34; The floou, p. 48; Tiape- 

 qoqot, p. 54. — Clatsop vociihulary, pp. 68-91. 



Note book no. 2. Explanation of Chinook 

 texts, pp. 1-19.— Sentences and vocabulary, 

 Cliinouk dialect, pp. 19-33.— Explanation of 

 Katiamat texts, pp. 33-57.— Claekaiiias vocabu- 

 lary, pp. 1-11.— Wasko vocabulary, pp. 1-11. 



