still speakers?

[Scott Tyler]

LaXayam Yakima tlooch!
hyas ankatti hiloo maika kamtaks koopa kwolan
Hello Yakima Belle!
Long time no Hear!
hiloo mayka kumtaks yiem koopa yakama illahi pi tenino
tlaas chakoo yakwa
I never heard the story about the creation of the Yakima Valley and Land.
LaXayam mayka wawa yaka
Please do tell.
tlonas tloosh mayka wawa yaka yiem.
Pehaps it would be good to hear a story.
tloosh nanich, mayka siks scott
take care, your friend scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yakima Belle" <yakimabelle at YAHOO.COM>
To: <CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 11:46 PM
Subject: Re: still speakers?


> Naika chako klak Yakima pi kumtux tenas Tsinuk. Naika
> papa yaka munk kwolan kopa Tyee Beaver kuhnsih yaka
> wawa ekhanim kahta Yakima kloshe illahee chako mamook.
>
> (I come from Yakima and I know a little Chinook. My
> father heard Chief Beaver tell the story of how the
> Yakima Valley came to be created.)
>
> --- Dale McCreery <dr_mccreery at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>> Hey, this is Dale McCreery, from Hazelton, and I was
>> under the impression
>> that there were still some older people in town that
>> knew cj, as the
>> language was used between the Babine and Gitksan
>> tribes, who both have
>> reserves in the Hazeltons. I was reading an
>> autobiography of a local doctor,
>> and it stated that jargon was still very useful to
>> him in the sixties, and
>> although I haven't looked hard, I know at least one
>> man who's father was a
>> good speaker (father died a few years ago).
>> I'm on in the area now, but plan on checking if
>> there are any people who
>> still speak when I get back.
>> Dale
>>
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>
>
> I have a Home Economics degree and I am not afraid to use it.
>
>
> 
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