Congratulations to the Chinook people

[Scott E. Tyler]

Double Ditto Congratulations!!
This is truly a blessing.  Many tribes of Washington are arising from
unmitigated obscurity.
Scott


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tom Larsen [SMTP:bvtl at ODIN.PDX.EDU]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 04, 2001 8:34 AM
> To:	CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Subject:	Congratulations to the Chinook people
>
> In today's Oregonian (and in other newspapers too, I'm sure) there is a
> front page article about the Chinook tribe finally gaining federal
> recognition.  At the end of the article, they quote our old friend Tony
> Johnson, in Chinuk Wawa!
>
> Quoting the Oregonian article, Tony says:
>
> "'Finally, my children and everyone from here down, all the kids coming
> up, are never going to know how it feels to not be an Indian,' said Tony
> Johnson, a 30-year-old tribal member who is chairman of the tribe's
> cultural committee and head of the Chinook language program for the
> Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in Oregon. 'That's such a huge deal
> to me.' ... He gave thanks in Chinook-wawa, their language. "Dileyt
> hlush tum tum nasayka pus uk washinton-tilixam hlaska mamuk kakwa,' he
> said. 'It means we're feeling really good that the govenment people did
> this.'"
>
> --
> Tom Larsen
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