Talking about lahal songs (including Chinook Jargon ones) in Tla-o-qui-aht
I feel lucky.
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?
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?
I feel lucky.
This struck my eye:
Which is which? (Image credit: The Hall of Einar) Kiksht Upper Chinookan is a language where you can call horses ‘birds’.
Here’s another advertisement in (Northern) Chinook Jargon.
Humans have the ability to imagine alternatives to how things actually occur.
Previously, in this space: ‘Labrador tea‘ {yes, that’s a link} has come up only in (other) Métis languages.
The word mula in Spanish means a female mule; a male one is mulo.
Lots and lots of Chinook Jargon is connected with this item that belonged to U.E. Fries! Go see it all at the truly great Okanogan County Historical Museum in Okanogan, WA. 𛰅𛱁𛰃𛱂 𛰙𛱁𛱆𛰅𛱁… Continue reading →
An older person in Ketchikan, Alaska sang what they called “the Boy Scouts song” over the phone to me in 2003, and I had no way to audio-record it.
Did I find one of those kaltash tz’um love notes that the one chief was determined to burn?
