Proper noun
Wishram
A census-designated place in Klickitat County, Washington, United States, on the Columbia River.
Tillohash was Sapir's collaborator on the famous description of the Southern Paiute language Sapir's first fieldwork was on the Wishram Chinook language in the summer of 1905, funded by the Bureau of American Ethnology. Source: Internet
Sapir gathered a volume of Wishram texts, published 1909, and he managed to achieve a much more sophisticated understanding of the Chinook sound system than Boas. Source: Internet