Chinook Jargon and environmental hazards

[Tony Johnson]

LaXayEm shiks,

Just a couple of quick notes before running out for the long weekend.
There have been some very interesting responses regarding this forest
fire discussion.  Rather than throw my opinion in, I thought it would be
interesting to give a (very) few examples from Joe Peter.  I believe Joe
has came up before on the list.  He was a Cowlitz Indian fluent in
Chinuk Wawa.  Henry and I wrote a short paper regarding his recorded
speech for the 37th annual International Conference on Salish and
Neighboring Languages conference in 2002.  It was published in the
preprints from 2003 (38th annual).  Anyway, in it there are several
things of interest regarding this topic.

Joe Peter gives:

li'mulo-stik "woods"

and describes several prairies ("Lush-ili7i") in different states of
burning--one of his quotes describing this is:

yaka q'o7 kupa ixt Lush-ili7i alta wik-saya kanawi yaka paya ukuk
"he reached another prairies which was almost totally on fire."

Perhaps worth mentioning he, also, says (as blue jay is out of water,
and now resorts to beating the fire down with his bear skin robe):

ukuk itsxwEt-pasisi alta kanawi yaka chaku-paya
"the whole bearskin blanket was burned."

aLqi wEXt--Tony
(khapa sawash-ili7i)

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