Terms for chickens in NW indigenous languages

[Mike Cleven]

At 09:53 AM 2/12/99 -0800, David Robertson wrote:
>Howdy,
>
>As Nootka sounds, so sounds the Interior.  Nl~e7kepmxcin / Thompson
>River Salish, nx7amxcin / Moses Columbian Salish, Secwepemctsin /
>Shushwap Salish, and the Chinook Jargon of _Kamlups Wawa_, have words on
>the order of [chIk at n(s)].
>
>The latter language also has [likok], but it's very rare there, and is
>termed in Father LeJeune's "Chinook Rudiments" a word used elsewhere than
>Kamloops.
>
>On the other hand, Npoqinis^cn / Spokane Salish has [likok]; many other
>Interior languages also took their words for "chicken" from standard CJ.

likok and legok also showed up in the Nuxalk and Carrier books I was
glancing at yesterday.  But it makes sense that an imported word would be
used for an imported animal, yes?  Which gets me wondering about moos-moos
(actually, I've been wondering for a while) - as to whether it's of Michif
or Metis French patois construction, perhaps adapted from "moose".  Anyone
know when the first cattle were brought to the NW, and how?