[Edited to correct my early-morning misreading! hayu masi to Alex, Norbert, and Darrin.] An early Oregon newspaper notice is about half Chinook! Hias Cumtux. ALL persons indebted to me are requested to potlatch black hiack. P.D.… Continue reading
“The Clear Cut Future” book is a collection of visual art, poetry, prose. (Astoria, OR: The Clear Cut Press, 2003.) One of the contributors is the painter Michael Brophy, with selections from his… Continue reading
Chinook was there! The cartoon accompanying the article Past Glimpsed as B.C. Native Sons Banquet Pioneers Tributes Are Paid by “Marks of Appreciation.” YOUTHS OF 80 IN ATTENDANCE Happy Toasts — Some Make… Continue reading
I was looking through “BC Then and Now: Okanagan / Kootenay / Cariboo / Volume One” by Roland Morgan (Vancouver, BC: Bodima, 1978).
A very brief glance at a parallel between Lower Chehalis (Coast Salish) and a language that it helped give birth to, Chinook Jargon…
Both of the Pacific NW Métis languages show up in a couple of later frontier narratives of north-central Washington…
Reader challenge! Has any of you heard the “Chinook Love Song by Pat Schooner” from Bella Coola (Nuxalk country, BC)?
A family recollection that I originally shared on the old CHINOOK listserv merits re-posting here…
One byproduct of the Fraser River gold rush of 1858 was that Oregon gained even greater prominence in the minds of Californians, who found its inhabitants oddballs.
Everybody knew that the Canadian Settler government had outlawed traditional Native potlatches.
