Dixon & Palmantier, "Western Shuswap Reader"

[David Robertson]

This may be of tangential interest to someone on the list.  There's a book 
edited by May Dixon and Mary Palmantier, published in 1982, "Western 
Shuswap Reader" (Leiden, Netherlands: no publisher named).  It's a 
collection of texts in Shuswap.  

Page 11 has a story, "Sxetsets", from Charlie Draney of Deadman's Creek.  I 
haven't gone through the hard work of trying to translate it.  But it 
involves the Fraser River, a Chinese immigrant, chow mein, rabbits, and I'm 
guessing at least one First Nations person.  

Maybe there's some interesting story of Chinese-Native cultural contact 
there.

--Dave R

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