I would contact Hobe Kytr at the Ilwaco Museum..he is a great songwriter himself and might know of sources etc.

I would love to see them document the Native American songs..and the last of the Chinook jargon speakers (not the Chinook language, but that too), and the old Finnish and Norwegian fishing songs, if some exist, around here at the mouth of the Columbia.

Jon Pfaff in Seattle would be a good source. He ahs put on panels of NW songs at Folklife etc...they do tend to be more recently written but some are old..tend to be from B.C. via Phil Thomas.

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