Oh is Puyallup the name of a group? I’ve seen it on maps and always wondered about it because it looks soooo much like an indigenous australian place name from the southwest of Western Australia.
The ‘up’ suffix is a common place marker in some Noongar dialects, so it’s very common in town, suburb or neighbourhood names. The rest of the word fits so well as well. For example there’s a Mullyalup, which is pretty dang close.
Oh is Puyallup the name of a group? I’ve seen it on maps and always wondered about it because it looks soooo much like an indigenous australian place name from the southwest of Western Australia.
The ‘up’ suffix is a common place marker in some Noongar dialects, so it’s very common in town, suburb or neighbourhood names. The rest of the word fits so well as well. For example there’s a Mullyalup, which is pretty dang close.
Neat! Puyallup tribe, yup. Now home to the Western Washington Fair, the largest state fair on the west coast!
Fun fact: it was built on the site where we housed the Japanese US citizens in WWII internment camps, even though they were US citizens.
…maybe not so much a fun fact
Tribe, got it! And it looks like they’re Salishan speakers - that’s an incredibly interesting language family.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q4d_R2QHNgw&t=1245s
The PNW had a very rich tribal history