Native employees of sealing ships

[David Lewis]

Thanks Dave. I will look up the source. I have family that were whalers and sealers in the BC-Alaska region.
David G Lewis, MA PhD ABD
Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde

On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 18:50:19 -0400, Dave Robertson <ddr11 at UVIC.CA> wrote:
> 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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