Third try - hopefully I have the right server this time....

[Jim Holton]

Hi Gregory, I is nice to hear from you. I don't have any info on the
subject.  There are two people who might be able to answer your
question.
Zrjezdana Vrzic is doing a research project on Kamloops Wawa (How old
are you?). Henry Zenk knows a real lot about Chinook and is familiar
with Boas' work.  I've copied both of them on this message to you.  Also
another source you might try is the Chinook Jargon User Server
<CHINOOK at LINGUIST.lDC.UPENN.EDU>.  Somebody in this discussion group
might know something about this - I'll post this to the list. Nayka
tEmtEm pus Zrjezdana pi Henry Laska khapa list.  If you're not on this,
you might want to join it as interesting stuff comes across it all the
time.

Also, do you have to date or volume number of the issue?  I have copies
of a few issues and would like to take a peek.

LaXayEm, Jim


Gregory Robison wrote:
>
> Kampala, 25 November 1998
>
> Dear Jim:
>
> I once read a short notice in Kamloops Wawa (before my subscription lapsed)
> that Franz Boas was going to be in BC but, busy man, as usual, he didn't
> have time to collect all the coyote creation stories he would have liked,
> and so instead sent out an appeal for contributions by CJ speakers which,
> if I remember correctly, they were invited to submit in Duployan shorthand.
>  I have long wondered whether he ever got much of a response and, if so,
> whatever happened to that corpus.  Does that ring a bell with you?
>
> Curious in Kampala,
> Klahowya