Thesis on (Canadian) French influence in PNW
Those who are interested in all things French-Canadian about the Pacific Northwest frontier know that it can be hard to locate helpful sources…
Monthly Archive: September, 2020
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Another brick in the SENĆOŦEN ‘shithouse’
There’s a word in SENĆOŦEN (Saanich) Salish of Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, that seems as if it ought to be inspired by Chinuk Wawa…
1896: Talking to Spokane Garry’s sister in Jargon
The hat tip for this rare find goes to Tina Wynecoop, without whose recent Facebook post I mightn’t have noticed it.
“Canadian Camp Life”
Another largely autobiographical book by Frances Elizabeth Herring shows us some more BC Chinuk Wawa…
A Wakashan+Tsamosan co-etymology?
Very possibly a chance coincidence — but sometimes we find the most amazing resemblances among Chinuk Wawa’s input languages…
[sic]-tə́mtəm
Working with large numbers of Chinuk Wawa documents, as I do, I often find myself adding “[sic]” as a comment on what I’m seeing…
Salish ‘mind’ as a discovery in Chinuk Wawa
Every so often, my digging in the mountains of BC Chinuk Pipa (or “shorthand”) Chinuk Wawa writing turns up a new word.
1902: Alaskan Inuit pidgin English (/Hawai’ian)
It’s been known for some time that there was a pidgin Inuit language in far northern Alaska’s frontier days…
1891: Chinuk Wawa time capsule in Victoria, BC
It’s been 129 years — let’s dig this up & find out what the “book in Chinook” is!
1893 (!) : Reminiscences of Nanaimo’s old days
Well, this article appears on what passed for the kids’ page, so the 1850s and 1860s would’ve seemed like long ago…