Michif in Garrison Keillor book?!

[David Robertson]

In an entertaining book that I re-read every so often, "Lake Wobegon 
Days", Garrison Keillor writes about the fictional early Norwegian 
immigrant founders of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota.  These folks were 
misguidedly looking for a great lake in the Dakota Territory to take up 
fishing for a living, as they had done in Norway.  Some men in a "train of 
Red River oxcarts" wearing "brilliant sashes and beads" and speaking 
an "impenetrable language, a mixture of French, Ojibway, and Gaelic", were 
their guides.  

"[O]ne morning beyond Fort Abercrombie, the leader of the train approached 
them as they squatted around the breakfast fire drinking coffee, and 
said, 'C'est la wiki wanki, laddies,' indicating with a sweep of his arm 
that they had come to the place where they wanted to go."

This is on pages 72-73.  Pretty funny idea of what Michif sounds like!

--Dave R

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