"dret" Cowlitz shawash tIlIXEm; IlI7i lhas nim

[Nadja Adolf]

Ukuk Bastan man tikki wek kumtux ehkanum kopa illahee.
(Those Americans want to forget history.)

Wek chee nem munk Lush.

(A new name doesn't make it better.)

nadja

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Robertson [mailto:drobert at tincan.tincan.org]
> Sent: Saturday, February 13, 1999 10:57 PM
> To: CHINOOK at listserv.linguistlist.org
> Subject: "dret" Cowlitz shawash tIlIXEm; IlI7i lhas nim
>
>
> LhaXayEm!
>
> *IlEp, nixwa nay wawa "lhush ukuk!" pus Cowlitz shawash tIlIXEm.  Ukuk
> ixt-mamunk (tEmala san), "haya'sh tkop phapha'" wawa dret
> shawash tIlIXEm
> lhaska.
>
> *Makwst-Ikta, Spokane ya phepa _Spokesman-Review_ ukuk san ya
> wawa hayu
> khapa IlI7i lhas nim munk salIks shawash tIlIXEm pi lhaska shiks.
> Tl'unEs-lhaksta wawa lhush pus wek nEsayka wawa "Squaw
> Creek", "Squaw Tit
> Hill", pi khakwa.
>
> 	BEt wik nayka kEmtEks pus "Dago Peak" (khapa Idaho) ya nim chaku
> khapa BastEn p'Eshaq wawa, or pus ya chaku khapa ChInuk Wawa.
>  Hayu IlI7i
> khapa Idaho, wik saya khapa KInchoch IlI7i, t'u7wEn ChInuk
> nem.  Ixt man
> ya mamunk pus US Forest Service 70-80 khul anqEti, ya palach ukuk nim.
> Khakwa, "Eena Creek", "Mowich Creek".  Alaxti ukuk "Dago" dret khakwa
> "tunus lamush".
>
> 	Pi tEnEs-hayu tIlIXEm tIki pus nEsayka munk Xluwima Ikta nim
> khakwa "Papoose Creek" -- dret ChInuk Wawa ukuk!
>
> 	Wik lili anqEti, lhaska munk Xluwima ukuk "Dago Peak"
> ya nim, alta
> "Italian Peak" yaka!  Wek nayka cipi mayka!
>
> 	(The gist:  Some people think that place-names like
> "Squaw Creek"
> and "Squaw Tit Hill" should be changed to less offensive counterparts.
> This kind of thinking is really interesting when it is being
> applied to
> names like "Dago Peak" in Idaho, which was recently changed
> to "Italian
> Peak", believe it or not, and to "Papoose Creek" -- /papus/ being
> perfectly good ChInuk Wawa, as I can show you in the
> newspaper _Kamlups
> Wawa_ and elsewhere.)
>
>
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