A "cultural memory" of events long pre-dating Kennewick Man may be embodied in the Sahaptin language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirit Cave & Kennewick] Reference

A legend of Lal'ik, a local summit that is said to have stood above the waters of an ancient flood, might link contemporary Sahaptin-speaking residents of the region to a group that witnessed Ice Age floods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirit Cave & Kennewick] Reference

Even if Kennewick Man spoke a non-Penutian language, historic Sahaptin-speakers might have inherited their "cultural core" of knowledge, belief, and practice with respect to their environmental relationships from the earlier group to which Kennewick Man belonged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirit Cave & Kennewick] Reference

Sahaptin or Saptin comes through the Salishan tribes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

She wrote the first Sahaptin guide, the Yakima Language Practical Dictionary, in 1975.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference

But Sahaptin, a general term for the language that includes the Yakama dialect, will live on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference

Salishan researches 102, 103 reference to “Sahaptin” family 107 on the Shoshonean family 108 on the Siouan family 111.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

Born in Oregon, Beavert grew up in a village that spoke Sahaptin and was the first of her family to attend school of any kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference

There are only about 200 or so remaining Sahaptin speakers, and there may never be another as fluent as 88-year-old Virginia Beavert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference

She's been director of the Sahaptin program at Heritage University since 1991 and has taught the language at the University of Oregon in Eugene since last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference

The UW also conferred an honorary doctorate upon Virginia Beavert, an 87-year-old Yakama Nation elder who has worked for decades to preserve the native Sahaptin language.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

The translation dictionary, which she co-wrote with University of Washington linguistics professor Sharon Hargus, comes with a CD of Beavert pronouncing 9,830 Sahaptin words and phrases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference

The author advocates the plan of using a system of nomenclature similar in nature to that employed in zoology in the case of generic and specific names, adding after the name of the tribe the family to which it belongs; thus: Warm Springs, Sahaptin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

“Sahaptin” appears on Gallatin’s map of 1836, where it doubtless refers only to the Nez Percé tribe proper, with respect to whose linguistic affinities Gallatin apparently knew nothing at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

Virginia Beavert keeping Sahaptin language alive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference

Sahaptin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

= Sahaptin, Gatschet in Mag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

Sahaptin, 158.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

< Sahaptin, Latham, Nat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

1878 (see his Sahaptin).    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

X Sahaptin, Latham, Nat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

(vocabularies Sahaptin, Wallawalla, Kliketat).    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

Five families are mentioned, viz: Nūtka, Sahaptin, Tinneh, Selish, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference