Ma-iskEm ukuk, pus ma-nanich "Las-kEmtEks kanawi-Ikta" Las-buk!

[David Robertson]

(This is what you get if you read the "experts'" books! --)

George Fuller wrote "A history of the Northwest (with special emphasis on
the Inland Empire".  It was published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1966.

>From page 40:  "The [Old Chinook] language was utterly impossible to the
whites, and by 1850 the young Chinooks were discarding it for Chehalis and
the jargon."  Assuming this were true, how would the shift to a couple of
lowere-status languages have been motivated?

A page of doggerel about the Jargon follows, containing this gem:  "It is
a mistake to think that [the Indians] ordinarily used signs.  They like to
talk, and they did not lack words."  Ugh!  :-)



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