Ruby and Brown re Klamath knowledge of CJ

[Nadja Adolf]

It's not clear to me that he is suggesting the women are gun traders.
It may be that he is using the absence of firearms to imply minimal
contact between the Klamath people and whites.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David Robertson [SMTP:drobert at TINCAN.TINCAN.ORG]
> Sent:	Monday, February 08, 1999 11:55 PM
> To:	CHINOOK at LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU
> Subject:	Ruby and Brown re Klamath knowledge of CJ
>
> 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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