yədwasta

Location:	Just southeast of the roundabout where highways 9 and 538 (College Way) meet, near Nookachamps Creek. Visible from Knapp Road.
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Google Maps:	48°25′48.996″N 122°15′58.672″W
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pronunciation: yəd was ta

word analysis: yədwas ("heart") + ta (emphatic particle)

noun

pastəducid

1. Big Rock, site of the descent of cisxʷiʔxʷtʼil to earth

JLA photo

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sources

• 1999, Jay Miller, Lushootseed Culture and the Shamanic Odyssey, ISBN 0-803-23200-4, University of Nebraska Press, p. 54
• 1972, Chief Martin J Sampson, Indians of Skagit County, Skagit County Historical Series No. 2, Mount Vernon, Washington, p. 19
• 1994, Dawn Bates, Thom Hess and Vi Hilbert, Lushootseed Dictionary, ISBN 0-295-97323-4, University of Washington Press, pp. 215, 276