<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Laxayem Chinook users,</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I'm trying to find Chinuk wawa translations for <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>'intertribal' and 'upriver'. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">A group of us in Pendleton are forming a canoe family, and the skipper wants our family to have a Chinuk wawa name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We're an intertribal group, so we've been trying to translate the word intertribal into Chinuk wawa, ideas are khanawi tilixam, khanawi Laskta, khanawi Laska, or hayu shawash tilixam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Another thought is to translate the word 'upriver' into Chinuk wawa, since we are located up the Columbia.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Any ideas or suggestions?</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Hayu mersi,</font></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Tanya Harrison</font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Pendleton, Oregon</font></div>
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