<div>This is my attempt to translate it:</div> <div> </div> <div>To my good friend:</div> <div> </div> <div>If you want to know Chinook Wawa, I [will] write all I know now, I began to learn a little Chinook Wawa from a Native Chief when I first came to Nooksack in 1872, I [or he?] was in canoe, together with Jensen, and he helped me [to learn] Chinook Wawa. Jim said: what's your name? And I said: my name is Emmett. And he said: I give you a very nice name. I think [that] "Red Face" is a very nice name for you.</div> <div> </div> <div>Your good friend:</div> <div> </div> <div>"Red Face"</div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>David Robertson <ddr11@COLUMBIA.EDU></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On page xv of Robert Emmett Hawley's book "Skqee Mus, or Pioneer Days on <BR>the Nooksack" (Bellingham, WA, 1945) is the following letter to the <BR>reader. I
thought some of you might enjoy the reading practice.<BR><BR>Copa nika klosh tillicum:<BR><BR>Spose mika tickie kumtux chinook waw waw, nika tsum conoway nika kumtux <BR>alta, nika alip iskum tenas chinook waw waw copa siwash tyee alta nika alip <BR>charco copa Nootsaak copa 1872, mitlite copa canim, conomox Jinsen, pe yaka <BR>help copa nika chinook waw waw. Jim yake waw waw icta mica nim? pe nika <BR>waw waw nika nim Emmett. pe yaka waw waw, nika potlatch nika hias klosh <BR>nim. Nika tum tum Skqee mus yaka hias klosh nim copa mika.<BR><BR>Mika klosh tillicum, <BR><BR>Skqee Mus<BR><BR>(Anyone want to try translating this into English? Beware, there's a <BR>misprint or two here. Skqee Mus means 'Red Face' in Nooksack Salish.)<BR><BR>--Dave R<BR><BR>To respond to the CHINOOK list, click 'REPLY ALL'. To respond privately to the sender of a message, click 'REPLY'. Hayu masi!<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> __________________________________________________<br>Do You
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