Daily Archive: April 8, 2021

A.N. Armstrong’s 1857 lexicon

One of the earliest published vocabularies of Chinuk Wawa is a frustrating mess…

1899: Retirement of police chief means a new expense

As well as advocating for a pension for a longtime police chief, the Victoria paper stressed that a new Chinuk Wawa interpreter would need to be hired to replace him.

1895: “The Siwash” (part 2 of 2)

Continuing to the end of this surprisingly interesting book…

Is “Kehloken” Chinuk Wawa?

I want to direct you to a good read over at MYNorthwest…