Jewitt and Maquinna, weght klaska iskum lemah

[David D. Robertson]

The Victoria, BC Times-Colonist this Sunday, November 2, 2003 ran a nice
little feature in cartoonist and graphic artist John Bryant's "Passing
Images" column, on page D11.  It was titled "Chief Maquinna."  Inspired by
a sketch JB did of the chief's image on the legislature's library building
here, the column discusses Maquinna's role in the earliest contacts with
Capt. Cook et al.  Students of Chinook Jargon will be familiar with the
story of John Jewitt, 'white slave of the Nootka,' whose captivity
narrative provides us with some of the earliest documentation of words
that came into CJ.  A fun factoid in the article is that this year, the
bicentennial of JJ's enslavement, John R. Jewitt VI (great-great-great-
grandson of JJ; a high-school teacher in Seattle) met and shook hands with
Chief (Mike) Maquinna, who is descended from that earlier Chief Maquinna.

Klahowya,

--Dave