1870: “his clutchman” and “he potlatched, and hiac clatawad”
In the frontier era, Chinuk Wawa in newspapers was usually NOT translated for the readers.
Do you, like those readers, understand the following?
FINED .- A “noble red man” was
arrested and brought before the Re-
corder on Wednesday, charged with
abusing his clutchman, a “dusky maiden
of the forest.” As he had but $5 about
his clothes, he was fined that amount,
which he potlatched, and “hiac clatta-
wad for the forest dim.”
— from the Albany (OR) Register of January 29, 1870, page 3, column 1
