"Eulachon" among the Kwakwaka'wakw

Alan H. Hartley ahartley at D.UMN.EDU
Wed Oct 4 14:53:20 UTC 2006


Sally Thomason wrote:

> None of this has any bearing on the question of whether
> Chinook Jargon was known in the Great Lakes area in 1763

Right, and even assuming that CJ did exist at that time, it's pretty 
unlikely that Rogers would have learned the CJ word for candle-fish and 
used it as the name of the "the great River of the West".

Alan

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