In Part 1 of this mini-series on James Cook’s first-contact narrative, I showed what he expressed in the narrative of his 1778 visit in Nuuchahnulth country at what’s now known as Nootka Sound,… Continue reading
By definition, a first-contact report won’t contain a pidgin language, such as the so-called Nootka Jargon, nor Chinook Jargon, which we’ve been finding didn’t yet exist…
This mini-series gives you some nice chunks of material to practice reading.
There’s a metaphor in Chinuk Wawa that we only seem to know from the Northern Dialect…but evidence suggests it may be older, from the Southern Dialect.
A decade ago in this space, I wrote “Cayuse French, It’s a Thing“. I gave examples from books.
Song #4 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889)…
Perry Bayne is charged with murder in the massively multicultural King County area…
The only dictionary of Quinault, a Southwest Washington Salish (a.k.a. a “Tsamosan”) language, tells us púm means ‘plum’. Huh?
Qalis and Alex Code sent along the “Address Delivered at Dedication of Grand Ronde Military Block House at Dayton City Park, Oregon, Aug. 23, 1912” by M. C. George, published in The Quarterly… Continue reading
