Another reason why it should be called “Chinúk-T’səx̣élis Wáwa”
A modest proposal I want to make about Salish-looking words of Lower Chinookan, many of which became Chinuk Wawa…
A modest proposal I want to make about Salish-looking words of Lower Chinookan, many of which became Chinuk Wawa…
“Chinook spoken here,” that is.
Pioneer Thomas Prosch of Seattle adds to a string of Chinuk Wawa-rich appearances in this space…
While working with legendary photographer Edward S. Curtis, the important early historian of the Pacific Northwest, Edmond S. Meany, had a chance encounter in South Dakota with a very old woman who spoke… Continue reading
A social organization of Oregon-born kids of the pioneers — what better place to go looking for good (creole?) speakers of Chinuk Wawa!
From the Barkerville beat: a sample of another pidgin language…
A 1909 biography of John Sheepshanks, Bishop of Norwich, who spent time in early British Columbia. “A Bishop in the Rough“
The American West of the Settler society has a long and steady history of arguing & separatism…
Kind of a sad flipside to my recent post on “B.C. Black History (etc.)“.
A short, single-paragraph item in a late-1870s newspaper uses Chinuk Wawa to comment on national economic policy.