BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Blaiichet (F. N.) — Continued. 



gowns. Their (lestiuation was Fort Vaucouver, 

 which they reached Xovcmhcr 114, 1838. 



Vaucouver waa at this time the principal fort 

 of the Hudson liay Company, and this the 

 missionaries made tlieir headquarters wliile for 

 four years they toiled unaided up and down 

 the wide domain of their mission. The letters 

 of the fathers describing tlieir work and sur- 

 roundings are full of interest and afford valu- 

 able material for history. They learned the 

 Indian tongue and taught the natives the sim- 

 ple prayers and doctrines of the church in their 

 own language; Father Demers attending more 

 to tlie Indians, and Father Blanchet to the 

 Canadians. 



"With the rapid growth of the missions the 

 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-apostolic. The 

 papal briefs arrived on N'itvember4, and Father 

 Blanchet, setting out for Canada, received liis 

 consecratitm in Montreal at the hands of the 

 Archbisho]) of Quebec. Thence be went to 

 Rome, which he reached in Januai-y, 1846, anil 

 set before the Pope the great wants of his 

 vicariate. 



At his intercession, in July, 1846, after the 

 accession of Pius IX., tho vicariate of Oregon 

 was erected into an ecclesiastical province, 

 with the three sees of Oregon City, Walla 

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

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

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

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

 M. Demers to Vancouver Island. The neces- 

 sity of this division may be judged from the 

 result of the missionaries' labors at the end of 

 1844. Most of tho Indian tribes of the Sound, 

 Caledonia, and several of the Rocky Mountains 

 and ol' Lower Oregon, had been won over to the 

 faith. Nine missions had been founded— five 

 in Lower Oregon and four at the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. Eleven churches and chajiels had been 

 erected— live in Lower Oregim. two in Cale- 

 donia, and fourat the Rocky Mountains. There 

 were two educaticmal establislunents— one for 

 hoys and the other for girls. There were fifteen 

 priests, secular and regular, besides the sisters. 

 These figures nuvy not look large to-day, but 

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

 ican(-e ill a lapidly populating and growing 

 region. 



Meanwhile the archbishop of Oregon City 

 had been very active abroad in aid of his new 

 province and its dioceses. He sought help on 

 all sides, and returned in August, i847, accom- 

 pauietl by a colony of twenty j>ersous. compris- 

 ing seven sist('rs of Notre Uame de Xamnr, 

 three Jesuit fathers, three lay brothers, five 

 secular ])riests, two deacons, and one cleric. 



lu 1855 the archbishop started for South 

 America to collect for his nee<ly diocese. He 

 traversed Chile, Bolivia, and Peru, returning in 

 1857 after a successful expedition. Two years 

 later ho depax'ted for Canada, returuiui; the 



Blanchet ( F. N.) — Contiuu*'i7. 



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 186G the archbishop attended the second 

 Plenary Council of Baltimore, and, ever wat<-h- 

 fiil for the cares of his dioi^ese, returned with 

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

 he celebrated the fiftieth anniversary ot liis 

 ordination to the priesthood, and four months 

 later left for Rome to assist at the Vatican 

 council, where he met his early brother mis- 

 sionaries. He returned to Portland in 1870. 



On July 1, 1870, Archbishop Seghers, the 

 coatljutor, 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 colaborei- to the field where he had 

 planted and sowed and reaped so well. After 

 initiating Arehbisho)) Seghers into the work of 

 the diocese, the venerable man chose whollv to 

 retire from the scene of his active labors, and 

 published his farewell pastoral on the 27th day 

 of February, 18^1.— 2fallel. 



Boas (Dr. Franz). Chinook [Jargon] 

 sougs. 



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

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



Thirty-eight songs, one verse each, with 

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

 with musi(^ p. 225.— One song in Chinook, 

 except the last line, which is in Tlingit, j). 225.— 

 Glossary of Chinook words (74), alphabetically 

 arranged, pp. 225-226. 



Nott'.s on the Chinook htnguage. 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. 

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

 (lenders, with ex.-imples, pp. 57-58.— Plurals, 

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

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

 00-62.— Word composition, pp. 62-63. 



[Myths, legends, and texts in the 



Chinookan languages.] 



M.anu.scripts, four note books, sm. 4° ; in tne 

 library of the Bureau of Ethnology. 



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

 dialect :Cikla, a creation myth, p. 1 ;Ckulkulotl, 

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

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

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

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

 qoqot, p. 54. — CUatsop vocabulary, pi>. 68-91. 



Note book no. 2. Explanation of Chinook 

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

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

 Katlamat texts, p]). 33-57. — (Jlaekamas vocabu- 

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



