Received funds from Sargent for purchasing baskets. If going to southern Interior Salish region will not go over to eastern parts such as Coeur d'Alene, but work from Nespelem, focus on Columbia, Sanpoil, Yakama, Chelan band of Columbia Salish. Describes route to get there and back, including planned stop at mouth of Kootenay River to collect vocabulary of Lakes (Sinixt) dialect of Colville, and returning via Similkameen. Will look for "American Thompson." Has new information on them, including from a man at Lytton and others described. Has recorded several thousand Nlaka'pamux words, and will have numerous texts soon. Will make short excursion for more info on basketry. More info on funding needs. Yakama; Sanpoil; Columbia; Chelan; Colville; Nlaka'pamux; Thompson; Lakes; Sinixt
Returned from trip among the Yakama. Klicktats and Tenino people also prominent at Yakima Reservation, as well as small number of Wishram, Wasco, Cowlitz, and Wentachi. All these languages spoken there. Focused on basketry design questions as instructed, but asked some other ethnological questions that seemed important.
Hand-colored and annotated map delineating distribution of [as spelled] Northern group (Thompson), Central or Okanagon group (Okanagon, Lake, Colville, Sans Poil), Eastern or Flathead group (Kalispel, Spokane), Columbia, Coeur d’Alene, Sahaptin tribes, Cayuse about 1850, Cayuse claimed by some about 1860 or earlier to be old boundaries of Cayuse, Kootenay, territory claimed by some Spokane, and approx. boundaries of Spokane divisions. Annotated portions of map also include westernmost Idaho and southernmost British Columbia.; Base map: “Rand McNally & Co.’s Indexed County and Township Pocket Map and Shippers’ Guide of Washington...." (c) 1910. Scale 15 miles = 1 inch.
Hand-colored and annotated map delineating with hachures as well as by colors, “Columbia tribes or group,” “Central or Okangon group of tribes,” “Salish proper or Flathead group of tribes,” “Cour d’Alene” [names as written]. Notations on map: “Map showing early positions and approximate boundaries of tribes in portions of British Columbia, Alberta, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Wyoming. On the whole immediately (prior to the introduction of the horse, the North Western movements of Shahaptian, and Shoshonean bands in Washington and Oregon, the southern movements of the Blackfoot tribes, and the western movements of the Siouan tribes.” “Possibly on the whole circa 1700 A.D. for many of the tribes.” Specific tribes denoted [as spelled]: Salishan (comprising Lillooet, Thompson, Shuswap), Athapaskan, Chinookan, Kalapooian, Waiilatpuan, Lutuamian, Shoshonean, Shahaptian, Kitunahan, Algonquian, Siouan.; Base map: “Rand McNally & Co.’s Commercial Map of the Western States.” (c) 1908. 1910 printing.
Part of ACLS Collection, Item 59, "Annotated Maps and Notes to maps of the Pacific Northwest." These notes accompany 15 maps hand-annotated by James Teit, showing territories and language ranges in multiple period of Indigenous peoples primarily of the Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.