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Sagalie Tyee

[< Chinook Jargon sagalie above + tyee chief]

Pacific Coast

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the Christian God. Also spelled Saggali Tyee, Segali Tyee.

Quotations

1833

[After breakfast [I] was requested to "wawa saccgali." Gave them an account of the Creation. . . .]

1922

Then the Sagalie Tyee smiled on his Indian Children.

1963

"You good mans . . . You go Saggali Tyee [God]."

1964

Coast Salish groups who do not remember this name refer to the deity by a name which translates into "Chief Above," and this is an exact equivalent of the term for God used by missionaries and Indians in the Chinook jargon--"Saghalie Tyee."