Xwa! XawElh ma munk nawitka ukuk! ("squaw")

[David Robertson]

Lhush chxi pulakli, shiks,

Chxi alta na tl'ap ukuk khapa _Kamloops Wawa_, #108, p. 54 ("Celebration
at Chilliwack"):

Kanawi skwa tilikom mamuk drit
tlus klaska haws:  Klaska drit tlus
klaska haws[,] pi kanawi tkop kopa klahani[.]
Chi klaska kopit mamuk pint klaska haws.

(Khapa BastEn:)
All the squaw folk really
fixed up their houses:  They were really nice,
their houses were, and all bright on the outsides.
They had just finished painting their houses.

YEkwa, na tEmtEm /skwa/ dret khakwa "shawash lhuchmEn"!  Ukuk chaku khapa
BastEn Wawa, wekna?

(I just found this in _Kamloops Wawa_, and you won't believe it..."Squaw"
being used in Chinook Jargon by one of its most fluent speakers.  A loan
from English, no?)

Dret Xluwima pus na tl'ap ukuk chxi alta!
Dave



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