Chinook hehe

[Lisa Peppan]

I've been chewing this over for a while and thought that perhaps I might
as well just do it.  <G>

The following is a "chant" I wrote for a (SciFic) Fantasy novel I'm
trying to get published and I'm curious as to how others will decypher it
-- seeing as how I was working solely with The Thomas "Chinook: A History
and Dictionary" at the time I wrote it.

And, as far as I know, I made up the word "Keet".

The "chant" is spoken by a ship's captain named Yakosilth Tsiat'ko (he
has a daughter named <impish grin> Klatwaona).

What's Cap'n Silth going on about?

 "O Keet, ekkoli tyee,
    nika wawa mika kopa ahnkuttie tillicums yiem wawa, ahnkuttie laly.
    Nesika kopa hyas ticky!

"O Keet, hyas tyee kopa ekkoli,
   nika okustee pe nika skookum wawa mika kloshe
   tum-tum mesachie tahmahnahwis kadeena nesika.

"O Keet, hyas ekkoli tyee,
   nesika mamook halo klaska pe nika ikanim hyas kokshut
   nika kwass nesika wake iskum illahee.

"O Keet, ekkoli tyee,
   mika potlatch nesika okoke kopa mika okoke klatwa kopa chuck
   kahkwa nesika skookum kopa klatwa illahee."


Lisa
IBSSG
Edmonds WA USA
lisapeppan at juno.com
Genealogy Research at http://members.tripod.com/~LisaPeppan/index.html

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