WA: Ford family history
It’s not in the title of The Family History of Raymond & Corinne Blakeslee {do you realize that that’s a link to click?}, but the pioneer Ford family of southwest Washington is documented in a… Continue reading
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?
It’s not in the title of The Family History of Raymond & Corinne Blakeslee {do you realize that that’s a link to click?}, but the pioneer Ford family of southwest Washington is documented in a… Continue reading →
Thanks to reader Ken Favrholdt for making me aware of this published item from the frontier era of British Columbia!
We have a tantalizing scrap of Hawai’ian-Salish fiddler Charley Kahana’s Chinook Jargon.
Here’s the Northern Chinook version, totally understandable to Southern Dialect speakers too:
What does “Klipchuck” mean to you?
Image credit: Free Salmon on FB #IndigenousMetaphors
What did this taste like?
In an archive the other day, I found an overt attribution of the earliest Chinook Jargon poem.
Okay, crowd, source me this:
Thanks to a more-or-less anonymous reader of this website for making me aware of this new wrinkle! Looks like this Stardew Valley Chinook Jargon Translation mod was created by our old friend Sequoia.… Continue reading →