Sage grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus. páyumšma pawáašaša ‘the grouse are dancing’ (you can hear them when they are flapping their wings in the mountains); payúmšwaašat ‘grouse dance’.
Language Program · Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
A living Extension of Noel Rude's decades of Umatilla language work