Chinook Jargon poem...

[Colin Bruce]

Nayka tikegh okeoke.  Nayka tikegh kumtuks ilip hayu.
Kahta wawa ok shantie kakwa chinook?

   Okeoke tawagh illahee
   Siah, kwanesum tawagh
   Pi klak yawa, chuk mamok tawagh
   Pi klak yawa, Salmon klaska cako

   ???

Alahtie klaska ilip kumtuks kahta wawa
Hloyma klaska mitlyte Boas yaka toketie wawa.





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>>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"







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