{"id":9646,"date":"2017-10-18T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=9646"},"modified":"2017-10-18T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T16:05:00","slug":"from-the-archives-special-collections-tamanawas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/from-the-archives-special-collections-tamanawas\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Archives & Special Collections: Tamanawas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"archives_10-18\"<\/a>At our Open House for Homecoming and Family Weekend, we got a question about the origin of the title of the yearbook, Tamanawas<\/em>. Volume 1 of Tamanawas<\/em> was published for the 1920-1921 school year. According to the UPS website<\/a>, Tamanawas is a Salish term that means \u201cthe coming of age\u201d. A more complete description can be found in the 1920-1921 Tamanawas<\/em>, where it says that \u201cToo-man-a-wus is the term used by the aboriginal people of the Northwest for a man or woman who has become, by long work, training and sever tests, following rules laid down by custom, to be an efficient healer of diseases and by the guiding hand of the medicine spirit to give correct diagnosis\u2026 Too-man-a-wus was therefore the goal of only the brave, the fearless and worthy ones\u201d. To obtain this definition, the yearbook staff (the juniors of CPS) consulted Mr. Henry Sicade, \u201ca Northwest Indian residing here in [their] midst.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, it appears that that meaning may have been misunderstood at times. For example, in the same issue of Tamanawas<\/em>, the greetings at the beginning of the yearbook mention the \u201cpunch and \u2018good spirits\u2019 characterized by the \u2018Tamanawas\u2019\u201d, and in the February 1920 issue of The Trail<\/a>, it says: \u201c\u2019Tamanawas\u2019 \u2013 Do you know what that symbolizes? It stands for \u2018Lively Spirit,\u2019 and C.P.S. annual\u201d.<\/p>\n

What many people don\u2019t know is that before it was called Tamanawas<\/em>, the yearbook was called Klahowya<\/em>, first published in 1913. We only have the one issue (1912-1913) of the yearbook under that title, but it\u2019s unclear whether a yearbook was actually published between 1913 and 1921. Klahowya is another Native American term, meaning \u201cPlease help me\u201d or \u201cI\u2019m miserable\u201d in Chinook\u201d. According to the Children of Fort Langley (an organization dedicated to the history of Fort Langley in British Columbia\u201d, the use of the term Klahowya as a greeting may have been a misunderstanding; native people \u201cbegging for goods or food\u201d was so common that white men assumed that it was a standard greeting. (source<\/a>). This assumption is backed up by the March 1912 issue of The Trail<\/a>, which mentions the use of Klahowya at All-University Day, saying: \u201cJuniors arose and, solemnly bowing to the guests, gave the good old Indian greeting \u2018Klahowya\u2019. The Freshmen could not fully appreciate the meaning of it all\u201d, which indicates that at some point, the phrase had some special meaning to the students of the University of Puget Sound, but that they didn\u2019t understand the origin of the phrase.<\/p>\n

Come check out our collection of yearbooks going back to 1913 if you want to learn more!<\/p>\n

The Archives & Special Collections<\/a> is open on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays from 12:00-3:00 p.m. or by appointment.<\/p>\n

By Julia Masur<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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