Talk:Salish Sea

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[edit] Bad ethnography

The khWuhlch was the primary waterway interconnecting the greater Lushootseed Coast Salish Nations. (Culture area languages and dialects had variations on the name.)[1][5]

There were more than Lushootseed-speakers even in Puget Sound, never mind northwards. Even using the Lushootseed name as equivalent to the Georgia Depression/Basin and the neologistic "Salish Sea" isn't right, as Lushootseed didn't have a priori naming authority anywhere north of Whidbey Island; I have no idea what was used in Clallam, Twana, Chehalis, Hunquminum/Hulquminum/Halqemeylem, Squamish, Shishalh, Comox and Pentlatch and whatever else in the way of languages there is in the region, but it's not very relevant, nor is the repetitive emphasis on Whulge (or khWulhlch) this article uses. And it's not as if the Lushootseed had a word for the whole basin from Olympia to Campbell River; more likely the term they used referred only to their local waters.Skookum1 19:32, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

I support the merge proposal, with the rider that the primary article be Georgia Depression or Georgia Basin, or maybe better Georgia-Puget Basin (or Depression). Salish Sea is a fictional name - catchy, but without any local context or familiarity...too much like "invented geography" (which is one reason I got rid of the "defining" elements of "Cascadia", which has more than one "definition" anyway).Skookum1 19:32, 9 September 2006 (UTC) PS somewhere I've also heard Fraser-Puget Lowland; there's probably a few other terms kicking around. Whulge isn't one of them, and neither is Salish Sea.Skookum1 19:33, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree with the merge. Georgia Basin sounds right; however the Georgia Basin article needs to say that it includes Puget Sound. Never heard of Whulge. Use English. Kla'quot 07:19, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

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