Ruby and Brown re Klamath knowledge of CJ

[David Robertson]

Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown, "Indians of the Pacific Northwest."
Norman:  University of Oklahoma, 1981.

*Page 208:  'Unlike their Chinook sisters, Klamath women knew on the
average but a dozen English words and were unfamiliar with the Chinook
jargon.  This was a reflection of Klamath isolation, as was the fact that
until the middle of the nineteenth century they secured few guns in
trade.'

I'm unsure why women are specifically mentioned as gun-traders ... Maybe
this was an especially fierce ethnic group.  :-)  The time frame of the
above remark is the 1860's.

Best,
Dave


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