Sources of CJ recorded in the Inland NW/NEW TO THIS LIST

[bob rock]

Tansi Dave and List!

I am brand new to this list.  I am a Metis from the St.Louis-Batoche,
Saskatchewan area.  I am a writer/producer/photographer eager to learn
more about Metis history, culture, language and traditions.

Do we have any Metis "linguistic experts" on this list?

The Metis local that I belong to would like to have the words "EQUALITY,
DIGNITY AND RIGHTS" engraved onto a memorial plaque we are putting
together (to honour our elders and ancestors).  Might anyone on this
list be able to venture a Metis/Michif  translation of the words,
'EQUALITY, DIGNITY AND RIGHTS"?

And how might those translated Michif words differ and vary in the
Chinook tongue?

Thanks in advance,
Sincerely,
Bob



David Robertson wrote:
>
> LaXiyEm, kanawi-Laksta,
>
> At a bookstore here in Spokane today, I found 2 copies of "Conquest of the
> Great Northwest" by Lauran Paine (New York:  Robert M. McBride, 1959).
> They were both too expensive for my budget, but I noticed a tantalizing
> thing in the later chapters...
>
> Dialogue in Chinook Jargon between United States Army soldiers and
> Qualchan of the Yakama people (son of Owhi the Yakama war chief) is
> reported.  Footnotes apparently substantiate that this dialogue comes from
> one or more diaries of soldiers present at the events leading to the
> hanging of Qualchan at Latah Creek.
>
> An example of the dialogue:  'Cah mitlite mika tyee?' (Where is your
> chief?)
>
> I believe that the majority of the reportage we've inherited of these
> events is from Lieutenant Lawrence Kip.  My copy of "The Jesuits and the
> Indian Wars of the Northwest" by Robert Ignatius Burns, S.J. (Moscow,
> Idaho:  University of Idaho Press, 1966) has the following 2 items by
> Kip in its bibliography:
>
> "Army Life on the Pacific:  A Journal of the Expedition against the
> Northern Indians, the Tribes of the Coeur d'Alenes, Spokans, and Pelouzes,
> in the Summer of 1858."  New York, 1859.  Reprinted in The Magazine of
> History, Extra No. 30, New York, 1914.
>
> "The Indian Council in the Valley of the Walla Walla."  San Francisco,
> 1855.  Reprinted Tarrytown, NY, 1915.  Also reprinted as The Indian
> Council at Walla Walla, May and June 1855, a Journal, University of
> Oregon, Contributions of the Department of Economics and History, Sources
> of the History of Oregon, I, Eugene, OR, 1897.
>
> Happy reading!
> Dave
>
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