Sojourning Sisters
Thank goodness, there’s another fine book by BC’s master historian Jean Barman to share with you!
Monthly Archive: May, 2018
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LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 13
Short and sweet: no more slavery.
And I’m determined to get the Jargon!
That feeling when you get hooked on this language is portrayed in a video clip: (I hope this video embeds & shows up all right!)https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/embed/fe09ff12-e8d2-4fbc-941e-3ab444a48b67?autoplay=false
LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 12
Education and health care…
“Should” we see Salish influence in Chinuk Wawa commands?
A hot lead, or a cold “should”er?
LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 11
Prohibition, 1855 racially-segregated style.
Whiskey Joe
Now to Okanagan/Spokane country, from The Coast…
LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 10
A law talking about laws.
A Chinook “Wawa Wawa”
Previously on this blog:
LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 9
Giving the translators a break at last! This is the shortest article in the Treaty of Point No Point.