Native employees of sealing ships

[Scott Tyler]

Dave LaXayam na siks,
Looks like the employee Tom Lame had a coined Chinook name.

Scott

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Robertson" <ddr11 at UVIC.CA>
To: <CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 2:50 PM
Subject: Native employees of sealing ships


> Only slightly off topic, but definitely of interest to some of the list
> members: One interesting source of information on Native people's work
> aboard sealing ships is "Reminiscences of the West Coast of Vancouver
> Island" by Rev. Chas. Moser, OSB (Kakawis, BC, 1926).
>
> Page 112, for example, tells about Nuuchahnulth men's work on Be(h)ring 
> Sea
> sealers circa 1884.
>
> There's also information in the book about Mr. Guillod, the Indian agent
> who we know recorded a vocabulary of Chinook.  Also sociolinguistic hints,
> like people talking broken English, interactions with Chinese immigrants,
> and so on.  I also notice at least one Chinook Jargon name, "Tom-Sik
> Lepieds" [sic] (Tom Lame), on page 69.
>
> --Dave R
>
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