anqEti Quiz!
David Robertson
drobert at TINCAN.TINCAN.ORG
Wed Jul 28 01:20:58 UTC 1999
LaXayEm!
one of the answers/i:xt k!IlEpay-wawa
to the last quiz here/khapa ilEp-chxi 'Laksta kEmtEks?' yEkwa
:
"Leob Bear"/"liyab icxwEt"
is/yaka dreht kakwa
a creature/c!iyatkw
in the Canadian North/khapa kinchoch IlI7i qha sno chaku
which flies/yaka kawak
and attacks people/pi payt tIlIxam,
according to the Indian people/kakwa wawa shawash tIlIxam
way up in BC/khapa BC, dreht saya
in a 1922/sInmakwst-taLEm-pi-sinmakwst sno anqEti khapa
edition of "The Beaver"/"_ina_" c!Em-pipa
which was published by the Hudson's Bay Company/HBC yaka mamunk yaka.
It's pretty 'funny'/tEnEs-dreht Xluwima,
if I may say/pus Lush nayka wawa ukuk,
how this magazine/ukuk HBC c!Em-pipa
hardly talks about native people/wik-saya hilu-Ikta yaka wawa khapa
shawash tIlIxam.
For example/kakwa,
I didn't see/wik nayka nanIch
anything else/wEXt Ikta
of Chinook Jargon/khapa chInUk wawa
in it/khapa yaka.
Now/alta,
who/Laksta
knows/kEmtEks
the answers/k!IlEpay-wawa
to the/khapa ukuk
other/wEXt
questions/wawa?
LaXayEm,
Dave
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