Sin as a Jargon word (kinda the opposite of ‘sin’)
Not a word most of us would use every day, but it reflects a certain reality… Advertisements
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B.C. Black History, Indigenous race relations, plus Bostons & Chinese
Mifflin Wistar Gibbs (1823-1915) was a remarkable person.
Indian vs. Chinaman
The “[Denis] Kearney logic” that the writer accuses today’s Indigenous speaker of is a late-1800’s “build the wall” paranoia about China…expressed in Chinook Jargon!
Medicine Man’s Success
Women play a key role in two episodes recounted by an overeducated post-frontier central Washington farmer, who quotes Moses-Columbia Salish people’s Chinuk Wawa words.
Roses are…poo?!
I meant to write this in time for Valentine’s Day, sorry, honeypot!
Disaster to Coffee Johnson
Nooksack news.
Pioneers to Meet Soon
Toward the end of a post-frontier news article announcing a Washington pioneers’ gathering, a sense of urgency is imparted by switching into untranslated Chinuk Wawa.
“T’see Alki”: a lost Downey-Bartlett song?
Found: a Chinuk Wawa song we didn’t know of before.
Seal of Kalama
Chinuk Wawa humor…
“The New El Dorado, or, British Columbia”
Here’s a fortuitously — even questionably — timed curiosity for you: “The New El Dorado, or, British Columbia” by Kinahan Cornwallis (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1858).