Things Chinuk Wawa doesn’t do (Part 1)
I’ve mentioned, over the years, many things you just won’t be able to do when talking Chinook Jargon. I think these are valuable little lessons in how to talk this language right…
Monthly Archive: April, 2023
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Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 9)
In our previous installment, we discovered 2 entire pages that hadn’t been known to Chinuk Wawa scholars. Let’s see what turns up this time around!
1870: Neah Bay oath, and election fraud
At the link below, go read the full story of massive Settler meddling with the Native vote at the Makah Indian Reservation.
1871 [1838] “sopenaի” isn’t about jumping
A word that I guess only one Chinuk Wawa dictionary reports to us is “sopenaի“…
Blankenship, “The Early History of Thurston County” (Part 3)
This time: memories of Pacific Islanders, Métis, Native people, and a tense conversation…
“Straight talk” in “Chinook Texts”
Wawa dret!
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 7: The Chilliwhack brass brand
“THE INDIANS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA” …is the page header.
Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 9: ‘last’, and German influence?)
Here’s our latest installment in a mini-series on a remarkable if tiny article, “The Chinook Jargon” by Franz Boas in Science XIX(474):129 (March 4, 1892).
1863: Oregon Latin
A bit of gentle humor on the subject of Chinook Jargon…
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4G (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences) … acting and intending
In my previous installment of this mini-mini-series of Geo. Gibbs’s example sentences, I talked about a very important concept in Chinuk Wawa’s grammar, the “active” verbs…