Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 15: mills and donkeys)

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Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 15: mills and donkeys)

What do donkeys and mills have in common? (Here’s a link to all installments in this series.) A steam donkey in BC (image credit: Wikipedia) Back on December 21, 2016, our friend Dr Dale McCreery shared an observation from his work in the Bella Coola area of British Columbia’s coast. It’s a sentence in the Nuxalk (a.k.a. Bella Coola Salish) language… Wicanap-a wa ksnmak alh ti mula t’ayc? ‘Is it you guys who work at this sawmill?’ Dale observes…