I visited the graves of PNW linguistic pioneers in Spokane
At Mount Saint Michaels in Hillyard (Spokane), Washington, this week:
The Jesuit cemetery where many missionary pioneers of Pacific Northwest language documentation are buried.
The view from the oldest section:
Father Edward Griva, who wrote a manuscript dictionary of Chinook Jargon:
A plot where one marker is a pine board, in the style of many Indigenous cemeteries:
Mayka wash?
The much-revered Father Cataldo:
