Language and Respect for Elders

On April 3rd, 1806, amongst Upper Chinook people near present-day Portland, Oregon, William Clark wrote:

Those people speak a different language from those below tho' in their dress and habits and manners &c. they differ but little from the Quathlahpohtles. Those people have Some words the Same with those below but the air of their language is entirely different...they pay great attention to their aged Severall men and women whom I observed in this village had arived at a great age, and appeared to be helthy tho' blind. (Clark, from Moulton V.7, 65-6)

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