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"Spanueh" is not "Hudson's Bay" spelling of "spadue", but simply an earlier spelling of it; Lushootseed underwent a sound shift in the nineteenth century where all normal nasal vowels (m, n and their variants) were replaced by stops (b, d and their variants). This is reflected in many other words (especially place names); for example, the "m" in "Muckleshoot" and "Duwamish" is "b" in modern Lushootseed. Hudson's Bay just happened to be the company active in the area when the old pronunciation was normal. In modern Lushootseed, only certain mythological characters (especially Raven) use the nasal vowels, much as in modern English only Shakespearean and KJV biblical characters normally use "thou/thee/thine" or the "-eth/-est" verb endings.
On another anachronistic note, in 1899 there were no "motorcades" to Mount Rainier. Check when motorcars became prevalent, and either change the date referred to or the mode of transportation. --Haruo (talk) 17:40, 27 March 2012 (UTC)