CHINOOK JARGON AS A BC ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE: The following is an argument I wrote up as a grad student, a few years back. It’s keenly relevant now, eh?
A good article at the Smithsonian Folkways website about early Pacific NW fiddlers includes some wonderful discussion of Charley Kahana.
When you’ve been researching a subject for 30 years, there will be topics that you thought you had already told people about. But haven’t.
“JAKE HARDING FIDDLED FOR FIRST DANCE IN SEATTLE”!
I’m not getting any younger, these songs won’t record themselves, and clichés won’t get the job done either!
THIS IS INCREDIBLE. I meant to headline this as just “valuable”, but the “naughty” parts are in fact an exquisitely rare find. NSFW, nor for minors!
Chinook Jargon’s skákʰwəl ‘lamprey eel’ is a weird-looking word, for having come from Chinookan languages.
An item at the Royal BC Museum filed as “Journal, Southern BC” ought in fairness to be described better.
When I was a younger learner of Chinuk Wawa, you can bet I had a heck of a time getting ‘get’.
A Makah woman contributed this treasure to posterity!
This photo from our gathering in Port Coquitlam, BC on Friday and Saturday sends the message: k’ilapai / k’ilapay “Come back” next time! It was wonderful as always to be in the same… Continue reading →
