Levi Ankeny's translation

[Linda Fink]

Okay, I'll make a stab at this, just to show how many misunderstandings I
would have had trying to communicate in Jargon!

>"Mica wake potlatch nika mimaloose, moose moose, ocke illehe cop a nica,

Don't kill me, cow, this land of mine,


>Boston man wake close Boston man capsuallow nica illehe, wake potlatch

Boston Man is no good. Boston man steals my land, doesn't give


>sublil, mica hiu olo, nica wawa, mica clatawa, wake mitlite ocoke illehe,

me bread, I am very hungry. You tell me to go away, don't stay in this land,


>mica wake clatawa, nica mameloose mooge, moos, mameloose cuitan mameloose

I will not go away, I will kill mooge (?), cow, horse of Boston man.

>Boston man.  Wake mica potlatch sublil, mica potlatch chickamin, nica

You do not give me bread, give me money, I


>clatawa tum water, nich ischum shut, nica ischum iknuse, nica ischum

go to the waterfall, I take shirt, I take (iknuse?), I take


>sublil.  Old man doctor hias close tillicum, hias close tumtim, wawa nica,

bread. Old man doctor very good person, very good heart, tell me


>charco tum water mica potlatch sublil, nica potlatch chickamin."

I go waterfall give me bread, give me money.


I think we would have needed to know the context a little better to figure
out what's going on. At least, I would have!



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