Chinook Jargon and environmental hazards

[Scott E Tyler]

Tony,

Thank you for the cultural tidbits.
I like the term " li'mulo stik"
 " Lush ilihi " is great too!
 " q'o " for arrive is nice to see too.


It is possible to get the text of his story in wawa and pastad wawa ?

LuS naniC na siks,
Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Johnson" <Tony.Johnson at grandronde.org>
To: <s.tylermd at COMCAST.NET>; <CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: Chinook Jargon and environmental hazards


> 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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