“Less familiar words” in the Northern Dialect (Part 1C: Shaw 1909 continued)
Trekking further into the evergreen woods of Washington, BC, and points north, where a bunch of southern-dialect Chinook Jargon words weren’t known…
Monthly Archive: June, 2023
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1892: Shorthand Chinook in Oregon courts
The tone of today’s news clipping is flippant.
Si′-pah ‘straight’ is from Clackamas Upper Chinookan
On the authority of his buddy and fellow “Stevens Treaties” translator Benjamin Franklin Shaw, George Gibbs tells us a word si′-pah ‘straight (like a ramrod)’.
Learning from the Lane learners (Part 3)
Here’s another taste of what we can learn from the Lane Community College learners of Chinuk Wawa…
1932: Rhodes Scholar gives speech in Jargon
From the “Small World” Dept.!
1868: A Chinuk Wawa dictionary we hadn’t known of
Here’s a marvelous discovery…
Culture lessons: Things Chinuk Wawa doesn’t do (Part 3)
Here’s another kind of thing we don’t do in Chinook Jargon, so pay attention and learn to talk fluently…
“Músmus-latèt” people at Skeetchestn, BC!
Hayu masi to Alex Code for reminding me of this striking episode in the Kamloops Wawa newspaper!
1917, Bella Coola BC: Hiyu chicimen stone
Chinuk Wawa has played an important role the “exploration” of the Pacific Northwest by Settlers.
Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 11: an obscene meaning)
Reports of the death of mamuk were greatly exaggerated!