Columbia Plateau Indian Place Names: What Can They Teach Us?

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-26

  Hunn, Eugene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 84937261051     PISSN: 10551360     EISSN: 15481395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/jlin.1996.6.1.3     Document Type: Article

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