Lexical correspondences between Chinook and Kalapuya
Leo J. Frachtenberg published a study on three of the Grand Ronde reservation’s traditional tribal languages, investigating whether they might be related to each other way back in time.
Monthly Archive: September, 2018
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Worship in the ancient form at Grand Ronde
John Minto IV (1822-1915), English-born Oregon immigrant of 1844 who went on to an illustrious political career, claimed only a rusty grasp of “the Chinook wa-wa” — and that’s why he’s a reliable… Continue reading
“The Coming of the Chinook”
From the eponymous “Wazzu” yearbook.
Poor Lo’s misplaced confidence
“Classic Chinook” being one of settler society’s stock jokes, equating the Jargon with the respect that the broader culture accorded to ancient languages like Latin and Greek…
Alsea ‘knife’, ‘metal’, and missing links
Research on other Pacific Northwest languages quite often yields Chinuk Wawa treasure.
Stó:lō is a Chinuk Wawa name
The name Stó:lō for the lower Fraser River Salish people of British Columbia is quite possibly a Chinook Jargon word.
Are Chinuk Wawa’s prepositions due to Salish & not Chinookan????
Chinuk Wawa has prepositions — why?
Nika memloose, mine memloose
Louis Slumach (Slum.ook, Slumah, Sumah) of Katzie First Nation, a Sto:lo band in British Columbia, is at the centre of another Chinuk Wawa-related urban legend.