The Kalapuyans

[peter webster]

LaXayEm!
I wanted to say mahsee for the Byron translation--I spent some
engrossing--and frustrating--hours translating from the cInuk to English!
What the heck, tho, anything worth doing is worth doing the way I do it!

I'm looking forward to the next, uh, er, challenge...

At 12:11 PM -0700 8/30/99, David Lewis wrote:
>In going through Box 2 of SWORP 2, I was lucky enough to come across Gibbs'
>linguistic fieldnotes from Champoeg which he was able to obtain while the
>treaty was being negotiated and signed. I believe these are the same notes
>referred to in Harold Mackey's book "The Kalapuyans" in which he states is
>'missing'. It appears in the bibliography of the book that Mr. Mackey spent
>none or little time at the National Anthropological Archives at the Museum
>of Natural History in Washington DC or he would have probably been able to
>find this file as we did. The file listing will be in the next attachment
>for Box 2 of SWORP 2.
>
>David


peter