Though the names will probably never be changed to the original 'native'
ones, does anyone know the translations of the interesting sounding names
of these various volcanoes. Thank you.

Maureen Ellis
U of WA

On Wed, 26 Apr 1995, Jon Anderson wrote:

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>
> On Wed, 26 Apr 1995, Stuart MacKay wrote:
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> > Being a direct descendent of St. Helen, I feel that my family has been
> > cheated out of a considerable inheritence by preventing us claiming the rights
> > to the extensive mineral deposits in the area :-)) Maybe the change of
> name had something to do with land claims, n'est pas ?
> > Apart from English names displacing the names that "native" peoples
> already had...
>
>
> The good citizens of Tacoma have been proposing for years that Mt Rainier
> be officially re-named "Tahoma", as it was called by the local Salish.
>
> I fully support that effort, and would also like to see the Chinookan:
>
> Klickitat - not Mt Adams
> Lillooet -- not Mt St Helens
> Wy'East --- not Mt Hood
>
> There are many others (Does anyone know the Kalapuyan or Mollalla name
> for Mt Jefferson in Oregon?).
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