1996 November Report of the Auditor General of Canada [to the House of Commons]: Chapter 33: Indian and Northern Affairs--Funding Arrangements for First Nations
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[L. Denis Desautels]
Looks at characteristics of the population that would have found the mixed language useful and how it developed through marriages between traders and Indigenous women.
Chapter from: Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages edited by Ernst Håkon Jahr and Ingvild Broch
Story inspired by the discovery of the remains of young woman who lived during the 1600s, at time where there had yet to be contact with Europeans.
Revised edition.