1800s: Why “Boston man” accidentally makes it harder to research Chinook Jargon
In the 1800’s, there were large numbers of mentions of a “Boston man” (and “Boston men”?) in newspapers …
Monthly Archive: December, 2024
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Further seeds of tatís ‘flower’
Just putting this out there.
AF Chamberlain’s field notes of Chinuk Wawa from SE British Columbia (Part 14)
And still more new discoveries pop up in our next-to-last installment.
íləp ‘first’ may also be from Lower Chehalis Salish
The 2012 Grand Ronde Tribes dictionary of Chinuk Wawa suggests the Cowlitz Salish language as a possible source of CW’s íləp ‘ahead, first, before’.
More Salish ‘baby’ words in Northern Chinuk Wawa
Another ‘baby’ has been found!
William Mason Colvig (1845-1936) and a 1920 “Skookum Potlach” (Xmas) card from Oregon
Leo Barker “came upon this by happenstance” regarding a Settler immigrant of 1851 to southwest Oregon:
1917 BC Xmas card!
Click here for other Chinook Jargon Christmas stories, but…
Kamloops + other residential schools, as reported to Native people in Chinook (Part 11: an 1896 flood)
Today’s bit of information comes from the Chinook paper, although not in Chinook Jargon…
NCW kanawi-qa-ilihi vs qa-sun
A reason for the puzzlingly clunky Northern-Dialect expression for ‘everywhere’, kanawi-qa-ilihi?
SW WA Salish root ʔúm̓ and Chinuk Wawa mékʰmək: a shared Indigenous concept?
Whether or not we claim that it came from Salish, the Chinook Jargon use of a single verb for both ‘drink’ and ‘eat’ has a close parallel in local tribal languages.