Description

From Ts'éqwela looking down Harrison River. Ts'a'í:les Reserve is on the right.

Note
The mouth of the Morris Creek, Sxáxe, is in the foreground.

References:
Ts'éqwela, Th'éqwela - A fairly flat clearing on a mountain in Morris Valley where they used to play ts'its'eqweló:l or Indian badminton. The game was played with cedar things that have wings (winged cedar seeds?). The place was located on the Harrison River side of Morris Lake Mountain.
Brent Douglas Galloway, Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem, Volume I (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) 859.

Sxáxe - Morris Creek (near Chehalis, B.C.), Morris Lake (near Chehalis). Literally 'something to be sacred/taboo.' There is a story which explains this told on the perhaps untranscribed tape of the 8/24/77 Elders Meeting by Dolly Felix, perhaps the same story as related to Sxáxe Smá:lt, Morris Mountain.'
Sxáxe, Smá:lt - Morris Mountain (near Chehalis). It grew in the flood and the Chehalis people climbed it and were saved, nowadays you can go there if you know where and ask for rain or for a man, etc., there is a special tree there where a kind of blowing sound was always heard, a powerful place (Dolly Felix), literally 'sacred mountain.'
Brent Douglas Galloway, Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem, Volume I (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) 961.

Ts'a'í:les - Chehalis village on Harrison River, the Heart Rock for which Chehalis, B.C. was named (at the mouth of Chehalis River. The Heart Rock was about 14 ft. around, was shaped like a heart, was supported by a great root probably a willow (possibly a cottonwood) with lots of solid earth and grasses, it went up and down with the river's rise and fall (beating like a heart), the wash from the logging tugs washed it out about 4 or 5 years ago [i.e 1973-1974], it was probably a little upstream [north][on Harrison River] from the Chehalis River mouth and close to the village, Ed Leon knew the location, his son Rudy knows it also (EL with Ken McRae, November 1978). Literally 'on top on the chest.'
Brent Douglas Galloway, Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem, Volume I (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) 49.

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