Fort Vancouver: Salish ‘wild hops’
Advice: whenever you see a “sauvage” or sáwásh, get closer & have a careful look.
Monthly Archive: March, 2023
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Howay [Haswell, Boit, Hoskins] “Voyages of the Columbia” (Part 5 of 5)
One last time (in our mini-series on Howay’s collected journals of the Columbia Rediviva) — do we find any evidence whatsoever of Chinook Jargon, or any other stabilized pidgin/trade language, existing in 1792 along… Continue reading
1883: Dr. McKay’s pronunciation is our beeswax
My esteemed friend Henry Zenk once wrote a book chapter examining Dr. William C. McKay’s 1892 address on the 100th anniversary of Captain Robert Gray’s (“)discovery(“) of the Columbia River.
Kamloops Wawa pictures, Part 4: The Indian Chiefs of British Columbia
Another photo from Kamloops Wawa #130 (July 1895), on page [106], is this historical treasure:
1906: 1st colt born in Alaska
Among the animals we’re told understood Chinuk Wawa, we’ve seen the Thunderbird, dogs, and wood rats.
Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 6: ‘to give food’)
(Image credit: Chehalis River Mutual Aid) < ō’ma > is how Franz Boas’s really lovely 1892 article “The Chinook Jargon”, published in Science, writes úmaʔ (the modern Grand Ronde spelling).
‘Pioneers’ humor: Upper Chehalis Salish and English puns on CW ‘cultus Boston’
Touchingly, the Upper Chehalis Salish people have a word for the ‘pioneers’, the early non-Native Settlers:
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4D (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences)
#4 in our mini-series on paid Chinook Jargon expert George Gibbs’s illustrations of how to talk this language:
1909: Miss Emma Rainey and Chinook onstage?
Mystifying to find Chinuk Wawa in a Los Angeles newspaper!
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 5)
The 5th pair of pages in this overlooked gem!