(a) Emmett, where are you? (b) ChInUk Wawa map of the NW

[terry glavin]

stlatlimx spelling is skah'tin, which is a skookumchuck reserve nowadays.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Cleven <ironmtn at BIGFOOT.COM>
To: CHINOOK at LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU <CHINOOK at LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU>
Date: 03 December 1998 14:11
Subject: Re: (a) Emmett, where are you? (b) ChInUk Wawa map of the NW


>At 10:15 AM 12/3/98 -0800, terry glavin wrote:
>>just two days ago i was headed south on a bumpy logging road with gerrard
>>peters (from skateen) and old ed thevarge (from darcy), on the way to
>>skookumchuck, and as we passed tenas lake, ed turned to me, really
serious,
>>and asked: "you know how deep that lake is?" "how deep is it?" i asked
him.
>>"it goes aaaaallll the way to the bottom," ed replied. gerrard's dad
speaks
>>a good bit of chinook, but he's deaf, so there's a lot of shouting
involved
>>just in the business of saying good morning, which is too bad.
>
>!! Sounds like another candidate for Tony's eventual tour of BC to meet
>Chinook speakers....maybe better bring some earplugs, though.........the
>joke about the lake sounds pretty typical of local humour in that
area.......
>
>BTW, where's Skateen?  Is it the little place between Skookumchuck and
>Semahquam and/or Douglas?