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To: haqihana who wrote (49464)	4/22/2000 9:51:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I was referring to the Nisqually (an existing tribe) who were originally referred to as the Nez Quarre. I think the Nez Perce are another tribe. The name means "pierced nose" in French. I don't think they wore rimless spectacles (like FDR). I think those are pince nez -- "pinch noses". As I am sure you know in Salish sign language the tribe was referred to by the "nose pierced" sign, (move your right indiccator finger horizontally as if you were picking your nose into your right nostril). When anthropologists first described the Nez Perce they didn't report that they had pierced noses, and said nothing about their picking their noses (they were after all, guests). The tradition is that they formerly went around with a nose full of razor clam shells, a very noticeable accoutrement, which got the the name in Salish which the French traders picked up on. Of course, in ethnology it is not at all unusual for a tribe to pick up a name from someone else. My Native American ancestors preferred "Tsalaki", but the South Carolinians just couldn't handle the consonants. My Cymry ancestors preferred that name, but the damned Saxons called them "Welsh" (i.e. "foreigners.") Damn! Invade your island. Cut your throats. And then refer to you as "foreigners."