1867, WA: Indigenous strong language about politics

1867, WA: Indigenous strong language about politics

Totally un-translated Chinuk Wawa in the local paper, 114 historically significant words of Indigenous anger. Can you read it? The locals could, you betcha. It sounds like a pretty exact quotation of a Native person of northwestern Washington’s Olympic Peninsula whose dignity has been insulted by a really ignorant US bureaucrat:  Our Siwash [Indigenous] reporter expresseth himselfin regard to the late “potlatch,” [giveaway] thusly: Nah, mika pa…