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1878, SE Alaska: Chief Toy-a-att’s speech: Back-translation challenge

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There are plenty of hints in today’s featured frontier-era newspaper article that Chinook Jargon was being used a lot in Southeast Alaska. Such clues include the untranslated use of words such as tillicums, Ty-hee, and tum tum. Image credit: UCSD Library Digital Collections (Surely you know what those mean?) I won’t reproduce here a speech by Chief Toy-a-att at Wrangell, Alaska, as translated into English. But I challenge you to follow the link…

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