Recollections of my boyhood
He wasn’t a Forty-Niner, but this right here is gold!
Monthly Archive: December, 2017
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Grand Rounde: anecdotes of Quinaby
The rare find of an Oregon bank’s house magazine turns up Christmas-season gems from the Grand Rounde (i.e. Grand Ronde) Reservation community, 1883.
For bald heads! (My ears are burning)
Skookum Root Hair Grower was a nationally sold product in the USA. HairRaisingStories.com tells: William C. Halleck, of Portland Oregon, registered the words “Skookum Root Hair Grower” as a Trade Mark for a… Continue reading
di-ráte! Not a tirade.
Chinook Jargon, like any speech community, has developed standard ways of doing things, but sometimes one standard conflicts with another.
An American Oberammergau, by Harlan I. Smith
Yesterday we dealt with Jesus’s birth, today his death.
Talking about Christmas: “They weren’t angry, they just chewed on me”
Yesterday I showed you the Christmas tag, now let’s open the whole package…
Mary gives us a new verb for Christmas(ing)
Tlus pus msaika yutl tomtom! (Rejoice!) Chi tanas wawa chako kopa nsaika! (A new word has come to us!)
“…all the things Whites have been saying lately about violence”
Another unpublished Chinook Writing letter, seemingly dispelling rumours of a Chilcotin uprising…
Letter: “I’m off with my tent to Kluskus & Ulkatcho”
Another unpublished letter, one of the latest known in Chinook Writing, suggests Father Thomas preaching in Chinook Jargon up in the Dakelh (Carrier) and Tsilhqot’in (Chilcotin) country of BC, Canada:
“He’s certainly smart…he doesn’t do a thing”
Mundane but gossipy, this unpublished letter in Chinook Writing from one priest to another is a nice little read to practice on: