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- noun Alternative spelling of
Sahaptian . - noun Alternative spelling of
Sahaptin .
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- noun a member of a North American Indian people who lived in Oregon along the Columbia river and its tributaries in Washington and northern Idaho
- noun a Penutian language spoken by the Shahaptian
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Examples
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They are of the Shahaptian linguistic stock, to which belong also the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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On the south they were hemmed in mainly by the Shahaptian tribes.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Oregon, meeting Shahaptian territory on about the forty-fourth parallel or along the Blue Mountains.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Shahaptian tribes extended along the tributaries of the Columbia for a considerable distance, their northern boundary being indicated by about the forty-sixth parallel, their southern by about the forty-fourth.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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They number about 5,500, including a dozen small tribes upon the Yakama Reservation, which have been consolidated with the Clickatat (Shahaptian) through intermarriage.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Vancouver Island and south-western British Columbia, the Shahaptian or
Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892
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