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Monthly Archive: September, 2014
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Magnificat in lingua Chinook
Dave’s note: This post accidentally went public before I was done with it. Sorry for the confusion, and enjoy this valuable Jargon document now that it’s finished! An unusual find is this Chinuk Wawa… Continue reading
“Houn’ Dawg” song originated in Oregon
Today’s post was one of my favorites to write. It started with finding a Chinook song I hadn’t known before (always a thrill!), and it only got better as I followed the historical… Continue reading
Preschoolers speaking Chinuk Wawa…in 1925!
Thanks to Leland Bryant Ross for creating the JPG image of the newspaper article! DDR FOUR-YEAR-OLD SPEAKS CHINOOK Indian Tongue Easy to Her as English! Infant prodigies aplenty have been found who could… Continue reading
Jimmy’s Kill, a Tsimshian tsall tsale
J.H. McGregor, “Jimmy’s Kill“. BC Mining Record. Christmas Supplement, 1900, pages 68-72. A narrative seemingly based on the writer’s actual experiences in far northwestern British Columbia, “Jimmy’s Kill” has dialogue that rings true… Continue reading
Mr. Bunker will employ good men at $3 a day, but no cultus men at any price
A nice bit of Chinook creeping into local English in the Kootenays: The Nelson (BC) Miner of Saturday, July 19th, 1890 run an article at the top of the middle of three columns on page… Continue reading
“A slave jargon exists among the Nez Percé Indians”
William Wallace Beach (ed.). 1877. The Indian miscellany: Containing papers on the history, antiquities, arts… Albany: J. Munsell. In Albert S. Gatschet’s article here, “Indian languages of the Pacific states and territories”, page 444 brings… Continue reading