Paul Kane's Journal of his Western Travels, 1846-1848 - History and ...

Athabasca Pass by horse. Kane was there twice, briefly in
November, 1846, and for three weeks in October, 1847.
Hood The Blood fonn part of the Blackfoot Nation, occupying
hunting grounds that, in Kane's day, ranged from the Red
Deer River valley in Alberta down to the Teton River valley
in Montana (not Idaho). Like the Blackfoot, they were bison
hunters, enemies of the Cree, Kootenay, Shoshoni, and Crow.
the Broken ann This Cree chief, known also as Meskepatoon
and as Crooked Ann, met Kane on January 13, 1848, near
Fort Pitt. He was claimed by Robert Rundle as that Methodist
missionary's first convert to Christianity. WA provides the
additional detail that Broken Ann wrestled profoundly with
the question of the value of converting (275). He was famous
for the peace treaties he negotiated between the Blackfoot
and the Cree; he died in 1869 while trying to arrange another.
Kane did not paint him, but George Catlin did, at St. Louis in
1832, when Broken Ann was traveling to Washington to
meet President Andrew Jackson.
Brown, Mr. See Consuble.
Broza, Mrs. Unnamed in WA ("One of the women" [252]),
this woman provided the starved Kane with a meal of whitefish
when he reached Fort Assiniboine. No further identification
of her is available, but given the preponderance of the
name Brazeau among area fur traders, it seems reasonable to
suggest that Kane's spelling here intends that name.
buffalo hed See Lake Winapeg.
Campmaw de fusee Literally "Gun Encampment," I'Encampment
de Fusil is a small meadow situated ten miles
down the Whirlpool River from Athabasca Pass.
Campmaw de Kenan Kane probably means I 'Encampment
d'Orignal, situated on the Whirlpool River between the
height of Athabasca Pass and the Athabasca River.
canadain/Canadans/Canadian Kane means Canadien, a
French-speaking native of the colony known in the 1840s as
Canada East (fonnerly, Lower Canada; today, the Province
of Quebec).
Cappow Blaugh Capote Blanc is the voyageurs' name for
Assannitchay, chief of the Shuswap, whom Kane first met at
Jasper House on November 5, 1846, and whom he saw again,
at Boat Encampment, on October 10, 1847. In WA, he is
further described as "a very simple, kindhearted old man,
with whom I became very friendly" (106).
Carlton Fort Carlton (est. 1810) was visited by Kane September
7-11, 1846, and June 4, 1848. Principally a pemmican
supply factory and depot between forts Garry and Edmonton,
it stood on the North Saskatchewan River, about 120 miles
west of its confluence with the South Saskatchewan.
C~d's/CB:aids/C~des/C~ds The farthest downstream
carrying place on the Columbia River, 150 miles inland
from the Pacific Ocean, this falls is now controlled by Cascade
locks and submerged by Bonneville Dam.
Cashe-Cubit or the long Tutb Cash-a-cabut, a Saulteaux,
son of the chief at Rat Ponage, had been hired as a member
(engage) of the brigade with which Kane was traveling in
August, 1848. Kane sketched him.
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Catholick Mishion Wabes-a-mong See Belcour, Mr.
catholick mishon In 1838, Jesuit missionaries Fran~ois-Norbert
Blanchet and Modeste Demers (see de Merse) began a
mission on the Cowlitz River near the HBC fann. It served
the Chinook and other Indians, and lasted until 1850.
Cawa Chin Cowachin ("Land wanned by the Sun") is a name
that did and continues to encompass the independent bands in
the interior of southern Vancouver Island. They are linguistically
related to the Coast Salish tribes.
Caw-ke-kis suw-k-way Identified in WA as "Kee-a-kee-kasa-coo-way,
or the 'Man who gives the War-whoop'" (86),
this head Cree chief and pipe-bearer met Kane on September
15, 1846, between forts Carlton and Pitt, and also during a
trip to Fort Pitt in late January and early February, 1848,
when the chief was "travelling through all [the] camps [of the
Cree] to induce them to take up the tomahawk and follow him
on a war excursion in the following spring" (280). Kane
witnessed the opening of the pipe-stems and their ceremonial
smoking, presided over by this chief.
Cettle falls Kettle Falls, twenty-four feet high, is located on
the Columbia River (in Washington, forty-one miles downriver
from the British Columbia border). Its name may derive
from a Salish tenn for a tightly woven basket, somewhat
resembling a kettle, used for catching fish at the falls; alternatively,
it may come from the French name for the falls, La
chaudiere, also meaning "kettle," and used to descibe the
falls' frothing waters, which the voyageurs likened to water
boiling in a kettle. Here, the Chualpays (Colville) tribe maintained
the largest salmon fishery on the Columbia.
cbalefews Lake Given that Kane reached this lake before the
mouth of the Cowlitz River, and took a sketch of Mount St.
Helens from it, it is perhaps today's Hathaway Lake or
Campbell Lake; both are near Ridgefield, Washington, south
of the confluence of the Columbia and Lewis rivers. Kane's
name for the lake has not survived and appears on no maps of
the period. WA (136) has Kane making the sketch at the
, 'Mouth of the Kattlepoutal River," his name for the Lewis
River.
Cheif of Rat potage Neither a further identification of this
Saulteaux, nor Kane's sketch of him, appears to exist.
Cheif of the Lakes Kane met Ask-a-weelish, a Kootenai
(Can. sp. Kootenay), on the Columbia above Upper Arrow
Lake, on October I, 1847. Neighbors of the Interior Salish,
the Kootenai divided into upper and lower tribes. The Upper
Kootenai were hunters and even crossed the Rocky Mountains
for an annual bison hunt. The Lower Kootenai, whom
Kane likely met here, were primarily fishermen, living on the
waterways of the lower interior of modem British Columbia.
Epidemics decimated the Kootenai during the early nineteenth
century .
Chip a wayan The Chipewyan are an Athapaskan, or Dene,
tribe, whose name nevertheless derives from the Cree, meaning
"pointed skins." In Kane's day, they occupied a vast
area of the boreal forest, between the territories controlled by
Cree to the south and Inuit to the north.
Chute a Jocka See rapid de gock.
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