Salt Lake Herald | 1907-02-17 | Page 3 | Indians Talk Japanese

INDIANS TALK JAPANESE Sheridan Wyo Wo Cor New ew York Tork Tm It lt is not pot generally known that th the Crow Indian language l is III very er much m ch at atto to that of the Japanese said sid Colonel f S fC SC C Reynolds eynolds government agent at ib tb Crow Indian agency alen who has been ben I f r Sheridan making arrangements for the tb opening of the acres of the Crow Cro Cr reservation to settlement during daring the lut lu two weeks week in June That bat an Indian tribe 2000 O miles mies mie from fretS frO the coast coat should have hae many words word j common with wih a nation naton on the other oher s W l lof I of the earth is most moat remarkable and ad open op c I Ia a line lne of or theory theor and research upon L ethnologists and linguists can cn spend muc I I time and study 1 Over on the Crow reservation near tr th tho I t Custer Cuser battlefield lives a negrO named nt Smoky Smoky was us w born bor on the reSer ref and has been adopted into the Cro Lw CrOW 1 tribe BO so he is an Indian He lie tl thi i Indian language better than he h does do Eng Ens English lish lh Smoky always works work around tw itt agency and usually for tor the th Indian agm a nl Last year ear I had a Japanese cook cok a atha at attha 1 tha t agency Several dave das after he ht cam eam aI to work for tor me three Jap section seton m a Jf t from trim the Burlington railroads gang can canone one evening to see my cook ck They vr vrIn In tho the kitchen jabbering away when Smoky came ee in inA In A few r w minutes later the negro earn mp Into nto my mi mv library and told me the JaP Jal were talking Crow instead of their o ov language At t that time I could speak Ie e edma dlan dma only in a limited way wa but bt I wen Into the kitchen and asked my cook ck wn 11 W could speak English about IL It It To I i v surprise lurre I 1 found loun that Smoky was vas as partia parti iy lt correct and that many of ot the words core were used in the tile Crow with wor identically use the same sara meaning I Iam wih am not enough of an ethnologist to s s where these t ese identical words came from fron fromor I or whether or not the Crows and the Jap Japanese Japanese Japanese anese had hd a R common origin but it is 1 S these ai aT arvery curious fact tact that thesE languages I very er much alike aike