File under ‘Chinook Jargon names’. (There are lots.) I wasn’t previously aware of Chief Nose-in-the-Soup. His name looks like it could be: A mocking English nickname — I hope not. A representation of… Continue reading
Pus msaika tiki kanawi ikta sil pi kot; If you folks want any kind of fabric or clothing, shush pi siapul, kopa man pi kopa kluchmin. shoes or hats,for men or women. Pus… Continue reading
Salish lexically-suffixed (classifier) numeral influence on the 1902 Chinook Jargon of a Sechelt person? Never mind my big words. Just look: Pi iht man iht man klatwa mamuk pu mawich. (and one… Continue reading
Another great ad in Chinook Jargon: <THE KAMLOOPS SAWMILL, <All kinds of Dressed and Rough Lumber, Sash, Singles, Etc.> T Kamlups so mil: The Kamloops Sawmill: Iawa msaika… Continue reading
Learn this: The word for ‘people’, tilixam in Chinuk Wawa (tilikom as spelled in Kamloops Wawa dialect), fundamentally means ‘Indigenous people’. I’ve pointed this out any number of times. Back in the day, you had to… Continue reading
In this old newspaper article about “Stone Implements Used by the Oregon Indians”, I discovered a previously unknown oral text in Chinuk Wawa. (By that, I mean specifically lower Columbia River-area Chinook Jargon.)… Continue reading
A nice news piece, which may clarify history as locally understood from English-language records: [left column:] Iaka ukuk Kamlups chi styuil haws[.] This is Kamloops’s new church. Kopa Oktobir… Continue reading
TFW U save a URL to a cool linguistic thing & they take down the page In this source I recently found an early Chinook Jargon loan into the Indigenous language Hul’qumi’num (Cowichan /… Continue reading
A single wry word of Chinook Jargon that says a lot. Since the sad shooting accident up the South Fork of the Elk River all the Kootenay Indians left. They say there are… Continue reading
Here’s an Oregon Country frontier-fiction piece from post-frontier Seattle, a time and place that allowed an author to use extensive Chinook Jargon. I like that. I also like how the character Muriel at… Continue reading
