Buchanan's "chee laly" (re-send)

[David Robertson]

>> From the source Jeff kindly pointed us toward:
>>
>>'Constructed by the John Wilson Shipyard in the East Waterway, the ship 
was
>>intended to run between Port Madison and Suquamish (later Winslow and
>>Bainbridge Island). Approximately 600 persons attended the event, 
including
>>67 members of the Suquamish Tribe. Dr. Charles M. Buchanan, superintendent
>>of the Tulalip Indian Agency, addressed the Suquamish attendees in Chinook
>>Jargon (a trade language used between whites and Natives throughout the
>>West), and in response they smiled and nodded. Buchanan heralded a "chee-
>>laly" or new era of transportation on Puget Sound.'
>>
>>This sounds like dictionary Chinook!  Which means I wouldn't object to it
>>if I were just checking the meaning in a dictionary.  But I don't think 
I'd
>>use this phrase.  The closest you could get in Kamloops Wawa talk might
>>be "chi taim", a "new time".  (Or you could talk more clearly,
>>saying "things will be different now".)
>>
>>--Dave R
>>
>>
>>On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 03:30:18 -0800, Jeffrey Kopp <jeffreykopp at ATT.NET>
>>wrote:
>>
>> >Dr. Charles M. Buchanan's Jargon: http://www.historylink.org/output.cfm?
>>file_id=765
> 
>

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