The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West
Alternate Title
[Folklife of the West; vol. 2]
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Author/Creator
Barre Toelken
Education thesis (M.Ed) -- Saint Mary's University, 1996.
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