Athabaskan language encourages bear to leave camp

[D Roy Mitchel IV]

Nora Marks Dauenhauer spoke to a bear that was near us at a Tlingit language immersion retreat in '03 or '04, telling the bear that we were there just to gather edible plants, as it was, and that we wouldn't bother each other.  We watched each other as we gathered plants for a few hours.  All good.

--- On Wed, 4/29/09, James Crippen <jcrippen at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> From: James Crippen <jcrippen at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Athabaskan language encourages bear to leave camp
> To: ATHAPBASCKAN-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 12:12 PM
> No really.
> 
> http://alaskareport.com/news39/x71219_sherlene_mark.htm
> 
> Unfortunately the author didn't say *which* language, but
> we can
> safely assume it's an interior Alaskan one.
>