Chinook Jargon poem...

[morgan]

>>From Dell Hymes' essay: "Some North Pacific Coast poems: Problem in
anthropological philology":

In a discussion in regards to translation of a Salmon song collected by
Boas...

"...The beliefs reflected in the song are perhaps also those reflected in a
song in Chinook Jargon, told me by David French, which can be put in English
as:

There is a land of light,
Far away, always light
And from there the waters shine
And from there the salmon come"