2020: “Don’t destroy the writing”
Chinook Jargon-related research:
Image credit: Duke University Press
There’s a chapter in a scholarly book from 2020 titled ” “Don’t Destroy the Writing”: Time- and Space-Based Communication and the Colonial Strategy of Mimicry in Nineteenth-Century Salish-Missionary Relations on Canada’s Pacific Coast”.
That’s a link to it at JSTOR.
The piece is by Keith Thor Carlson of UFV in Chilliwack, BC. It’s in the book “Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire” edited by Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson, and Angela Wanhalla.
Connections to Chinuk Wawa in it include references to and quotations from Kamloops Wawa, and discussion of the sax̣ali-stik or Catholic Ladders.
Read and learn!
𛰅𛱁𛰃𛱂 𛰙𛱁𛱆𛰅𛱁 𛰃𛱄𛰙𛰃𛱄𛰙? qʰáta mayka tə́mtəm?
kata maika tumtum? Qu’en penses-tu?
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And can you say it in Chinuk Wawa?
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