Developing a Joke Part III

    The Nootka boy said to the Tlingit girl, also called Klingit, that the Nez Perce were a bunch of southern nincompoops, who did not know how to survive in even a foot of snow! He explained how he had met some Pierced Noses, and they talked like they had pine cones in their mouths.

    Meanwhile, the Haida grandpa told the Kwakiutl grandma about the crazy Inuit way up north, who lived in months of endless days and endless nights, and there were some white people who lived like that, but that they ate less caribou and whale blubber. How could people do that.

    The grandma blanched.