Happy Thanksgiving

[Scott Tyler]

LaXayam nika siks,
LuS tamtam pi paL hiyu hihi miLayt koopa wawa illahi
mamook hiyu maq'amaq'  oqoq  mahsi san
mayka siks ooshtaqi

greetings my friends,
happiness and laughter to chinook list serve
eat heartily on Thanksgiving!
your friend scott/ooshtaqi


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Robertson" <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
To: <CHINOOK at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 7:34 PM
Subject: On Gard!


> More information about Father Gard, whose Jargon lexicon was mentioned
> last week.  John Reinecke's "Bibliography of pidgin and creole languages"
> (1975) lists an item by him in the Smithsonian Insitution / National
> Anthropological Archive: ms. no. 1778 'Chinook Jargon' from Pawhuska,
> Oklahoma, June 1919.  It's written in a notebook.  This is 90 pages long.
> It contains prayers, hymns, catechism, formula for confession, and phrases
> in daily use.
>
> That Buchanan person who was also mentioned is listed by Reinecke, by last
> name only.  Apparently E.H. Thomas' book (1935)--I wouldn't have thought
> to look there--lists a manuscript by him, the whereabouts of which are not
> now known.
>
> --Dave R
>
> To respond to the CHINOOK list, click 'REPLY ALL'.  To respond privately 
> to the sender of a message, click 'REPLY'.  Hayu masi!
> 

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