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To: Beckwith
Skookunchuck?

Uke Lele.

2 posted on 06/06/2011 5:30:17 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Skookumchuck. It’s a Chinook word meaning “big water”. Pretty well known word or name in the PNW.


43 posted on 06/06/2011 7:35:33 AM PDT by stormer
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To: Paladin2

Google it:

Skookumchuck, BC
Canada

Very close to Idaho & Montana & yes it is in Canada


70 posted on 06/06/2011 11:05:32 AM PDT by ebysan (ebysan)
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To: Paladin2

Skookumchuk. There’s actually a river by that name here North of Seattle. It’s the name of one of the local tribes. This development is interesting.


94 posted on 06/06/2011 3:06:55 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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