Snoqualmies

English Noun en noun form en nonstandard en Snoqualmie#Noun en Snoqualmie#Noun 1999-01-21 Mike Lindblom Hops and Dreams A boatload of 37 Chinese arrived in Issaquah in the early 1870s willing to work for lower wages and provoked resentment among local pickers. A group of five whites and two Snoqualmies fired into Chinese tents at night, killing three and wounding three. https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19990121&slug=2939916 2023-12-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20231210184448/https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19990121&slug=2939916 2023-12-10 Proper noun en noun form en Snoqualmie#Proper_noun. en 1908 July Thomas W. Prosch Seattle and the Indians of Puget Sound The Washington Historical Quarterly 308 Patkanim represented his Indians, the Snoqualmies and Snohomishes; and Goliah the Skagits and others. Leschi and the Nisquallies did not interfere, and it was well for them they did not, as the stronger tribes of the lower Sound would have resented such action, blood would have flown, and the Nisquallies would have been wiped out. 4 2 https://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/WHQ/article/download/4823/3913 2023-12-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20200319003705if_/https://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/WHQ/article/download/4823/3913 2020-03-19 University of Washington Seattle 40473935 en Ruby Robert H. Brown John A. A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest Revised The Civilization of the American Indian Series 173 1992 University of Oklahoma Press Norman, OK 214 https://books.google.com/books?id=-7zBc-pqnGsC&lpg=PA214&pg=PA214 85022470 9780806124797 59235971 https://web.archive.org/web/20231210080933/https://books.google.com/books?id=-7zBc-pqnGsC&lpg=PA214&pg=PA214#v=onepage 10 December 2023 The Snoqualmies are said to have carried the designation "people of the moon,' and also "crowned with snow." They believed themselves to have been transformed from the mythical Beaver. Unlike most other natives of the Puget Sound Basin, they were well organized, but such a degree of organization allowed less individual freedom for their people. Usage notes The words Snoqualmies and Snoqualmie are both valid plural forms of Snoqualmie when used as a noun, and alternative forms of one another when used as a proper noun, but compared to the latter, the former is nonstandard, its usage rarer, usually dating to the late 19th and early 20th century.