Poster in Chinuk Wawa on Orcas Island

[Ros’ Haruo]

Fascinating! I'm forwarding this to fellow Esperantist David B Richardson of 
Eastsound, whose Chinook Wawa email (in an anglicizing orthography) to me I 
shared last year.
 lilEnd = haluo

 On 8/20/05, David Robertson <ddr11 at columbia.edu> wrote: 
> 
> While visiting a mall in Eastsound, Orcas Island, Washington (in the San
> Juans) a few days ago, I noticed the following on a poster about the Deer
> Harbor community's plans for the future. It was written in what looked
> like the Fontootseed font, intended to be used for writing Lushootseed
> Salish. The postermaker seems to have intended capital letters wherever
> you see ejectives and other nonstandard characters; some old anglophone
> Chinook dictionary must have been the reference. Here my E = schwa, S = s-
> wedge, and all spellings are as found on the poster. Maybe you'll enjoy
> trying to translate this.
> 
> k'wahnEsum
> 
> mahsiE mahsiE Samish t'illikum Samish t'amanhous
> nEsika tumtum kwann lE molo kwann
> illahEE hEEhEE k'onaway shantiE
> mahsiE mahsiE mahsiE
> 
> Incidentally, there seem to be competing stories as to who the original
> inhabitants or owners of Orcas Island were. About half the public signs,
> pamphlets, etc. that I saw assign Orcas to the Lummi people, and half to
> the Samish. The modern politics of Indian tribal recognition play a role
> here. I get the impression that certain entities on Orcas collaborate with
> the former tribe, other groups with the latter.
> 
> --Dave R.
> 
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