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4 unusual facts about Sahaptin language


James Cant Ranch Historic District

While boundaries were never clearly defined, the site that is now the Cant Ranch was used for seasonal hunting and fishing camps by Warm Springs and Umatilla bands, both Sahaptin speaking Columbia Plateau peoples.

Lomatium gormanii

Called sasamít̓a, sasamít̓aya, and łałamít̓a in the Sahaptin language.

Lomatium piperi

Lomatium piperi is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common name Indian biscuitroot (and called mámɨn in the local Sahaptin language).

Melville Jacobs

Especially during the earlier part of his career, from 1928 until 1936, he collected large amounts of linguistic data and text from a wide range of languages including Sahaptin, Molale


Umatilla people

Linguistically, the Umatilla people spoke a tongue that was part of the Sahaptin division of the Penutian language family — closely related to other peoples of today's Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington, and the Idaho panhandle.


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