Echoes from Elko
A single wry word of Chinook Jargon that says a lot.
Since the sad shooting accident up
the South Fork of the Elk River all
the Kootenay Indians left. They say
there are too many white men that
don’t kumtuks [understand] and it’s dangerous to
be safe.
— “Echoes from Elko (Remarks by Jim Thistlebeak)”, The Fernie (BC) Mention, December 12, 1914, page 4, column 3
It’s fun for me to find some Jargon in a town my family lived in at the time!
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