1902, WA: David Denny confirms he spoke Jargon and some Lushootseed
Here we have it from the horse’s mouth.
Here we have it from the horse’s mouth.
I’ll be double-dog-darned!
Fortunately for us, the acute-epithetted Alex Code noticed and made a captioned video of a Northern Chinook Jargon song that’s of some importance to us. This is a type of Chinook Jargon song… Continue reading →
“Russian in Alaska and in Alaskan languages” by the late, great linguist Michael Krauss of the University of Alaska Fairbanks is a brilliant demonstration.
As sung by Skokomish elder Henry Ruben Allen (1864-1956) several decades ago, this song quickly teaches you how to use “silent IT”. (Symbolized by Ø here.)
A party held in an early Seattler’s Settler’s home on January 16, 1866 was well remembered 40 years after!
Thanks to Professor Peter Bakker for an email in 2022 that got me thinking in a new way about a seldom-researched Chinook Jargon book…