Red thornberry, Crataegus columbiana. They have much longer thorns than the black Thornberry (šnɨ́m); the ones around Kamiah are orange. paˀaníx̣ana kulakúlaki łapt̓alá ‘they used to make pemmican with red thornberries’. Also sometimes applied to salmonberry, Rubus spectabilis (Beavert & Hargus 2009). Hunn (1990:347) also defines as soapberry, Shepherdia canadensis. [NP /telq/.]
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As spoken by a group of elders in the early 1980s when thinking about putting their language to writing.
The words and sentences in this dictionary are mostly the contribution of Twáway, otherwise known of as Inez Spino Reves. Twáway has never flinched from working with linguists, and her command of the “old language” with all its intricacies of grammar and vocabulary is second to none. Other Umatilla contributors are Charley McKay, Donald Joe, Emily Littlefish, Fred Hill, Joan Watlamet, Mildred Quaempts, and Thomas Morning Owl. Animal and plant identifications were much aided by botanist Dave Corliss (personal communication) and by Eugene Hunn (1979, 1990).
