Jargon is terminology, much like slang, which is used in conjunction with a specific activity, professions or field. Jargon is specifically domain-specific language used to aid communication by acting as a sort of common shorthand among insiders. As such, jargon is also a social tool, where proper usage of terminology can indicate whether a person is proficient with the subject. Incorrect use of jargon may sometimes be called ...

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List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - Alberta. Amisk: "Beaver" in Cree. Athabasca River, Lake Athabasca, Athabasca Falls, Mount Athabasca, Athabasca: "Where there are reeds" in Cree. Chinook: See Chinook. Medicine Hat: Translation of the Blackfoot word saamis, meaning "headdress of a medicine man". Wetaskiwin: "Place of peace" or "hill of peace" in Cree. List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - British Columbi ...

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A speech given by Chief Seattle in January 1854 was reported by Dr. Henry A. Smith in the Seattle Sunday Star newspaper in 1887. It is most usually called Seattle's Reply since it was a response to a speech by Territorial Governor Isaac I. Stevens. While there is no question that Chief Seattle gave a speech on this occasion, the accuracy of Smith's account is highly subject to question , let alone the accuracy of later accounts ...

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Chief Seattle was born around 1786 on Blake Island, Washington, and died June 7, 1866, on the Suquamish reservation at Port Madison, Washington (north of Bainbridge Island and south of Poulsbo). His father, Schweabe, was a leader of the Suquamish tribe, and his mother was Scholitza of the Duwamish. Seattle earned his reputation at a young age as a leader and a warrior, ambushing and defeating groups of enemy raiders coming up the Green River from the Cascade foothills, and attacking the S'Klallam, a powerful tribe living on the north ...

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In an American Indian Quarterly paper assessing Seattle's legacy, Klallam leader Phillip Howell is said to have thought of him as "a low type of Indian, a joke among the Natives and worse, a coward and a traitor" for going along with the treaty negotiations and yielding Indian lands to the white men. A different view is cited by Peg Deam, a cultural development specialist at the Suquamish Tribal Council. She is quoted as saying Chief Seattle "was put in a position where he had to make some very difficult--and ultimately harmful--choic ...

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