A bagful of Halloween treats!
Some eerily evocative previous posts for Halloween…
Monthly Archive: October, 2022
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A-G Morice’s writings, and Métis languages in BC
In the publications of Father Adrien-Gabriel Morice (1859-1939), you can turn up some quite neat information on languages of the historical Métis population of British Columbia.
1920: A hymn “In a Cannery”
The popular BC writer Pollough Pogue, always reliant on Chinuk Wawa for local colour, writes about an unspecified cannery with a multiethnic crew of Native people, Punjabis, Chinese, and so on.
“Board of Commissioners Honors Indigenous People’s Day”
The Multnomah County (Oregon) Board of Commissioners gave recognition recently to Chinuk Wawa as one of the Indigenous languages of that state.
“The Ethnography of Franz Boas”: How good was his Chinook?
Ronald Rohner compiled Franz Boas’s letters and diaries “written on the Northwest Coast from 1886 to 1911″…
‘Holler’ is the Chinuk Wawa translation of this Upper Chehalis word
In M. Dale Kinkade’s 1991 dictionary of Upper Chehalis Salish…
Chinuk Wawa filmmaker gets MacArthur “genius grant”!
A news release from Portland State University brings wonderful tidings…
1914: CM Buchanan’s speech at launch of steamer Suquamish (Part 2 of 2)
Quite a bit more Chinook here for you! (Here’s Part 1.)
1914: CM Buchanan’s speech at launch of steamer Suquamish (Part 1 of 2)
A typewritten archival document preserves a rare treat for us!
Urban housing with Chinuk Wawa names
Image credit: streetroots.org Chinuk Wawa makes more and more appearances in the present-day Pacific Northwest. Here’s a news article about an organization that runs urban housing projects in Portland named in CW, here… Continue reading