1899 Xmas: Have you read the posters?

Another Chinook Jargon artifact from Kittitas County that I’d like to find…

Add this to our files on “Chinook invitations” and pseudo-Indian fraternal societies:

redmenposter

Have you read the posters printed at THE DAWN office for the Red Men’s ball for January 1st 1900? If not you should read it — “jargon” and all.

— from the Ellensburg (WA) Dawn of December 15, 1899, page 4, column 2

Kahta mika tum-tum?
What do you think?

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