Chinuk Wawa in the news: Letter to the editor in CW and English

I feel bad that this one slipped through the cracks & got delayed for a year!

Here’s a letter to a newspaper editor, in modern Chinuk Wawa (southern dialect) & English, on the important subject of federal US recognition of the Chinook Indian Nation.

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Image credit: Amiran White, from the LCC Torch article

It was written by Jeanie Lee Baldwin, Madison Fowler-Niblock, Lynn Jeffries, Beth Sheppard, and the LCC CW202.

As they say in the northern dialect, skookum mamook, naika tilihum!

Click to read the whole letter, at the LCC Torch.

qʰata mayka təmtəm?
What do you think?