AN OPINION ABOUT THE WASCO INDIANS. 93 



Amp^ankni maklaks. 

 AN OPINION ABOUT THE WASCO INDIANS. 



Obtained in the Klamath Lake Dialect from Chaules 1'keston. 



Aiup;tankni gdtpa mu shanaholiuk suawedsb, kii-i spuiu vushuk; 



One Wasco came rery desiring a wife, (but) not gave from fear; 



mnch 



Amp^iiukni shawigatk; kiya Amp;(ankui. G(^uuapk tuuii E-ukskni 



the Wascoes are irritable ; liars are the Wascoes. Would go many Lake men 



Ampxani sheshatuikuapk lu'ksh ma'ntch=gftko ; skiitasli shan41ioliuk 3 



to the Dalles, would trade off slaves formerly ; blankets (they) wanted 



pa'niak, skutash I'ktsa Amp;(ani ydmuash tchisli. Nash s4pash g^pgapg- 



being un- blankets they at the D.illes beads also. In one month they wonld 



clothed, fetched 



liuapk, tsialsh ^pkviapk, kawi tchish dpkuapk. Tanni sha g^na? t^-unipni 



return, salmon they wonld lamprey- too bring. How many of did go! ten men 



bring, eels" them 



a-i sha g^na, snawedsh tchish g^na, kd-i sha i-a vu'sha Amp%anknishash. 6 



they went, (a) woman also went, not they of feared the Wascoes. 



course 



Amp^ankni ak sas hushts6;(iiapk; sass%ank i gi! ,K4-i uu shtinta 



The Wascoes them might kill; imperilled ye are! Not I like 



Amp;{anknishash, k4-i tidshi, kd-i tidsh hiVshkank. Hii' tidshi gitk 



the Wasco people, not good (they not well iutentioued. If good-hearted were 



are), 



maklaks Anipxankni, tankt ni ge'nt, sassaguk k4-i g^na. Tidshi ha'k 9 



people the Wascoes, then I may go being in peril I will not go. Good if to be 



there, 



tiimgnank gdnuapka nu. 



1 bear (tbem) shall go I 



(there). 



NOTES. 



The Wasco Indians form a portion of the Upper Chinook Indians of Columbia 

 River. Their ancient homes were around and at the Dalles, and a few of them still 

 live there, while others now inhabit a section of the Warm Sprins;- Indian reservation 

 on Des Chutes River, Oregon. The Dalles formerly were, and arc still to a certain 

 extent, the locality, where all tlic tribes of the Columbia River Basin sold and bartered 

 their products and commodities. The Warm Spring Indians call the Wascoes: Was- 

 kopam, " men of the grass region " ; the Klakamas-Chiiiooks caU them Guithlasko. The 

 Klamath Lake and Modoc Indians also were among the frequenters of the intertribal 

 market, exchanging there the slaves caught ou their raids for ponies, provisions etc., 

 when they went down to the Dalles ou their annual trips. My Indian informant, 

 Charles Preston, had lived long at the Dalles, and also gave nie a list vt Wasco 

 words and sentences. 



