Haida Gwaii: “Slatechuck” and more BC Chinuk Wawa ruminations
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Monthly Archive: May, 2019
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Cascadia and Chinuk Wawa
What’s currently the closest thing to a nation with Chinook Jargon as an official language?
“Kammus…is excellent both for indians and hogs”: the Ebey diary
The first wave of settlers in northern Puget Sound (Whidbey Island to be exact) used plenty of Chinuk Wawa, because they dealt daily with Indigenous people.
Germansen promises to be the “tyhee” creek
A common spelling of táyí (chief; main) in the 1800s shows up in an untranslated loan into British Columbia English.
A Quinault Salish etymology for ‘sea otter’?
Chinuk Wawa’s < elackiè > is a rare word, but it has outsized historical importance.
Chief Mason denies he has abdicated
The son of the Quinault tribal chief who negotiated their 1855 treaty with Gov. Isaac I. Stevens comes to town, and he’s not pleased.
The Cusick, WA Siwash Indians baseball team!
There was a baseball team in northeastern Washington state’s post-frontier era named the Siwash Indians.
About the Siwash (Haida Gwaii) sealers in Hawaii
From the land of Pidgin English, an absolutely fascinating interview in Chinuk Wawa…
Poetic BC family history and Chinook
The view I have of this book unfortunately doesn’t tell me the page numbers, so let’s call these “Snippet 1” and “Snippet 2”.
Lo in the calaboose; thanks a lot, Deputy Marshall Ass
Frontier-era Eastern Oregon?