American: dialect of Oregon and U. California, allied to Palaik, to Kulanapa, and Oregones.
⁂ The native name is “Wee-o-how,” i.e., “Stone-house,” a retreat in the famous lava-beds at Lake Clamets, in Siskyon County, California. They are, however, a race alien to the Modocs, and speak a different language. For the Chasta-Butte Indians, see Yeka.
Shawanoe.
American: also Shawhay, Shawnee, Shawnoe; S. branch of Algonkin; originally of Kentucky, they are now to be found west of the Mississippi. “Amer. Ethnol.,” vol. ii., p. 113; Schoolcraft’s “Indian Tribes,” vol. ii., p. 470.
Shawi, see [Showiah].
Sheba, see [Sheva].
Shebayi.
American: Carib of French Guiana.
Sheffield.
One of the provincial dialects of English belonging to Yorkshire. See Bywater’s “Sheffield Dialect,” 1839. See [Halifax].