Pre-1879, Montana Territory: In the land of the Blackfeet
Whose reminiscence of Montana Territory is this? What year does it refer to?
Monthly Archive: January, 2024
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“Less familiar words” in the Northern Dialect (Part 2C: Le Jeune 1924: other districts)
Continuing to sift through one of the on-the-spot reports about the differences between the 2 big Chinuk Wawa dialects…
🤣 “Chinook” and “schnook”?!
The always valuable ADS-L email discussion list made me aware this week of a post-frontier US English variant on “chinook” salmon.
1898, Oregon: City slickers from the Willamette Valley!
Now here’s a twist!
Learning from the Lane learners (Part 8: “tastes like”)
Today I want to share how to talk about “tasting” in Jargon…
1877: “A Parody on Jordan” doggerel
A longtime popular song got repurposed into a soldiers’ ditty in the Pacific Northwest, with some Chinook Jargon involved.
1911: Congress of Races, with Squamish delegates
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day: One of the first broadly anti-racist meetings in the post-frontier era involved Chinuk Wawa…
1905: A known Jargon name for Mt. St. Helens!
For certain solid reasons, there are fewer place names in Chinuk Wawa than in other tribal languages…
Culture lessons: Things Chinuk Wawa doesn’t do (Part 8: keep it simple, stupid)
K.I.S.S.: Keep It Simple, Stupid! This can’t be stressed enough.
1916: Rickreall: letter “L” is hard for Indian
Info from some old-timers, I reckon.