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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 2015
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Wines: Several Oregon wines featured in Top 12
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• No. 9: Noval
“Black” Port,
Non- (Portugal).
This fruit-packed ruby
port has been on the list for
three years in a row. I don’t
know what else to say but
you have to try this wine!
Even customers who swear
they don’t like port end up
saying “Mmmmmm” when
they taste Noval Black. Wine
Spectator’s Top Wines List
was packed full of ports, but I
can’t see how any of them are
better than this.
• No. 10 Pudding River,
Viognier, 2013 (Salem)
Winemaker Sean Driggers
delivers another incredible
wine. This wine is aromat-
it’s so dry it has dust! (No,
it doesn’t really, but you get
my point.) My employee, Lee
Roberts, loves this wine and
recommends it to customers
looking for an aromatic white
wine.
There you have it, The
Wine Shack’s 2014 rock star
Wines of the Year. But, wait
… we need 12 wines to make
a full case, so here are two
more wines for you: No. 11:
Lujon Riesling (Ore.) and
No. 12: AbaNo. cela “Vint-
ners Red Blend” (Ore.).
These two world class wines
are priced under $20, each
an exceptional value.
I am proud to say that the
average price for these 12
wines is only $29. For some,
that may seem high, but for
serious wine drinkers, $29 is
a very reasonable price, con-
sidering the quality of these
wines. If you would like to
pick up this case of wine, we
are offering them for only
$300 (a savings of more than
$50). You could also purchase
this at our online store, http://
store.beachwine.com
Please do not drink and
drive. We want to see you
again at The Shack in 2015!
Steven and Maryann Sin-
kler own The Wine Shack in
Cannon Beach. Steven’s col-
umn appears once a month.
Dictionary: Tome was once lost in a computer crash
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“At the time he came
here, there were lots of native
speakers who had full com-
mand of the language,” Morn-
ing Owl said.
Morning Owl’s mother,
Inez Spino Reves, now de-
ceased, was “a marvel,” ac-
cording to Rude.
“Her language was almost
entirely unaffected by English
— all the old grammar was
there,” Rude wrote. “I was
able to elicit the kinship terms
in all their myriad forms, and
many grammatical details of
the old language before they
were forgotten forever.”
The dictionary evolved over
years, living in various three-
ring binders along the way.
-
sion of the dictionary in
1996,” Minthorn said. “The
next came in 2000 and anoth-
er in 2006.”
The ace linguist once lost
the dictionary in a comput-
er crash, Minthorn said, and
quickly learned about backing
up on external hard drives.
Happily, he had the latest hard
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The Umatilla Dictionary provides a tool for the tribe as it documents and preserves the
Umatilla language.
copy to re-input.
The unpublished versions
of the dictionary were used
by Hill and others who teach
language classes. In 2010,
Minthorn said, Rude declared
the dictionary complete
enough to publish. Minthorn
contacted the University of
Washington Press and eventu-
ally inked a deal. Funding was
also provided by the Nation-
al Geographic Genographic
Legacy Fund, the Endangered
Language Fund Native Voices
Endowment and the tribes.
Because of retirements
at the UW Press, the process
took a few years. Finally,
without warning, a pallet of
700 books arrived in Novem-
ber. Minthorn was ecstatic.
She opened a box of eight,
lifted out one of the hefty
books and looked over the
pages with excitement.
The long-awaited dictio-
nary will provide a tool for the
tribe’s language classes. Two
years ago, the tribe kicked off
an innovative language im-
mersion class for 3-year-olds.
“We started with a cadre
of 10,” Morning Owl said.
“They were thrown into a sit-
uation where they had to sink
or swim. They became the
core. It will grow from there.”
Morning Owl said the
Umatilla language continues
to evolve as words are creat-
ed to describe function. A fu-
ture iteration of the dictionary
might contain words such as
computer, dragon and stapler.
“New coinages occur in
much the same way as in En-
glish,” Rude wrote. “How is
it we add words like laptop,
creative.”
Morning Owl, a translator
for the tribe, attends board of
trustee meetings to translate
Umatilla into English. Some-
times, he said, an elder will
lapse into Umatilla, but it hap-
pens less frequently.
Rude laments the passing
of native speakers, but is phil-
osophic.
“Those elders represent-
ed a nation, a language and
way of thinking that can
never be completely record-
ed or recaptured on paper,”
Rude wrote. “The language
will never be restored as it
was, but neither should peo-
ple forget who they are.”
Rude, who now lives near
Reedsport, returned recently
to the reservation for a book
launch, attended by many
from the tribe.
“It was really emotional,”
Minthorn said.
She said other tribes have
shown interest in the dictio-
nary as a template for docu-
menting their own languages.
The dictionary is available for
purchase at the Tamastslikt
Cultural Institute for $50. At
the moment, the volume is on
sale for $40.
Contact Kathy Aney at
kaney@eastoregonian.com or
call 541-966-0810.
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