Alsea translation

[Linda Fink]

>He said in the Chinook Jargon, 'Nika mam'ook ill'ahee.
Nika muck'a muck nika.'"  Lottie Evanoff, who heard the story from her
father, Daloose, commented that it sounded as if he said (in translation),
'I'm going to eat my land.'  But what he really meant, she explained, was
that he would put a fish dam at his place and eat salmon, not imposing on
the whites.

Or, "I'll work the land. I'll feed myself."  ??

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