1893: Happy Chinook Halloween
I’ve once again managed to find a connection between Halloween and Chinuk Wawa 🙂
I’ve once again managed to find a connection between Halloween and Chinuk Wawa 🙂
In British Columbia, the old word < moosum > (músum) ‘sleep’ fell into disfavor because of its longstanding naughty overtones…
pʰáɬlam (< patlum > in BC spelling) is a famous old Chinuk Wawa expression…
Other Chinuk Wawa words entered English earlier, usually in Oregon and Washington, but “cheechako” can technically be called a Canadianism…
“Full of”, in Chinuk Wawa, is just plain “full”.
When I checked whether an 1897 German book’s “chicamin silver” was real Alaska Jargon, I got excited for a second by the article under a racist headline… Cannery, Haines, AK (image credit: Haines Sheldon… Continue reading
Come on down to Crazy Dave’s for all the best deals on Chinook lessons!
There’s a nice collection of “8 authentic Native American dugout canoes” on display in front of the Island County Historical Museum, in Coupeville, Washington. I noticed some of them have Indigenous names painted… Continue reading
I always incline to get excited when a possible find of Chinuk Wawa in Montana pops up…
A quite early metaphor in lower Columbia River creolized Chinuk Wawa seems to have been replaced by Grand Ronde creole speakers…