1900, WA: Kloshe tanse in Spokane
Post-frontier era, in town where Chinuk Wawa had never been as important as it was elsewhere…
…So this Improved Order of Red Men invitation was composed with a published dictionary. This we can tell from the spellings. (It’s kind of like using AI to write your assignment in school, boo.)
I’ll let you use a dictionary and my previous writings about the “Red Men” to figure out what the following says 😊
Kloshe Tanse.
“Nah Sikhs! Spokane Pil Siwashes wau-
wau chahko paleface sikhs kopa tanse hee
hee house on 26th Sun, Cold Moon, G. S.
D. 409. Wayhut coolie 8th run 30th breath.
Newhah mika toketee klootchmen ma-
mook elahan hyas tyees. Kloshe tanse,
skookum tin-tin, cultus hee hee, hyiu tilli-
cum. Tanse sitkum polaklie. Sitkum
dolla hee hee. Kumtuks!”The above invitation has been issued by
a committee of the Red Men for a ball
which they are to give on the evening of
January 26 at Symons hall.The members of the committee are E. O.
Connor, Del Cary Smith, Dr. C. C. Mann,
J. W. Charlton and M. H. Christensen.
— from the Spokane (WA) Chronicle of January 18, 1900, page 7, column 3
