pastəd

Lushootseed

word analysis: from pastəducid Boston as the first group of permanent white settlers in the area were from Boston

According to Lushootseed: The language of the Skagit Nisqually, and other tribes of Puget Sound, an Introduction: Book I, the first group of white people to settle permanently in the area were from Boston, but does not name the settlers. It appears that the members of the Denny Party, which is generally considered the founders of the city of Seattle, were not from Boston.

noun

pastəducid

1. white person, Caucasian
   • xʷiʔ čəd ləpastəd.

   I am not a white person.

2. (less common) English-speaking (white?) American

see also: xʷəltəb

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sources

• 1994, Dawn Bates, Thom Hess and Vi Hilbert, Lushootseed Dictionary, ISBN 0-295-97323-4, University of Washington Press, p. 160
• 1995, Thom Hess and Vi [taqʷšəblu] Hilbert, Lushootseed: The language of the Skagit Nisqually, and other tribes of Puget Sound, an Introduction: Book I, Lushootseed Press, ch. 8
• Wikipedia article] on the Denny Party