Cash, Gwen. I Like British Columbia. New York: MacMillan, 1948. , (fwd)

[David Robertson]

Hi!  Not sure whether I've already forwarded this to you all...Dave

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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 13:23:15 -0500 (EST)
From: John Davis <davis at usdoj.gov>
To: David Robertson <drobert at tincan.tincan.org>
Subject: Re: Cash, Gwen. I Like British Columbia. New York: MacMillan, 1948. , (fwd)

        David,

        Thanks for forwarding that interesting message.

        Capilano Narrows is named for Jimmy Qepilanwh,
        an important man from the Vancouver area who
        was invited to England and spoke with the Queen.
        Long before I read Black Elk Speaks, I was told
        of how some of the elders wanted to see how he
        was doing over there, so one of them went into
        a trance and followed his trail to England and
        was able to report back that he was doing just
        fine.  His trail was said to be like a horizontal
        column of smoke, just as described in Black Elk Speaks.

        At the risk of repeating what you may already know,
        I'll say that siwash is the Chinook Jargon pronounciation
        of the French word sauvage, English savage, which
        was the word the French used to refer to the
        indigenous peoples.  Incidentally, in Latin America
        the word indio is sometimes felt to be derogatory,
        so the proper word when speaking Spanish is indigeno.

        --John