Why Granville Stuart’s Chinuk Wawa was Grand Ronde-ish
When I’ve previously written about Montana settler Granville Stuart’s CW vocabulary, I’ve mused about how surprisingly Grand Ronde-like it is.
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And speaking of circuses…! Why Granville Stuart’s “Montana As It Is” is so rarely seen
Hold on to your Stetsons, buckaroos, this one is gonna take you for a wild ride!
Granville Stuart’s overlooked Oregon Chinuk Wawa, and potential benefits to Grand Ronde
Sam Johnson had a brilliant insight: you have to examine every Chinook Jargon dictionary in detail.
‘Know by voice’, a SW WA Salish-ism in Chinuk Wawa
My research work on Lower Chehalis Salish (ɬəẃáĺməš), the language traditionally spoken alongside old Lower Chinookan (Natítanui), steadily turns up gems of Chinuk Wawa.
All about barfing
The idea for this post came up as I revisited Victoria Howard’s tale “Just One His Leg, Just One His Arm”…
1872 fictional Montana CW from Grand Ronde (!) : “A Gold-Hunt on the Yellowstone”
I always incline to get excited when a possible find of Chinuk Wawa in Montana pops up…
=na =na =na =na, =na =na =na =na, hey hey hey, data!
Howdy folks, I started an essay on what we know about the Yes/No particle =na, and it surprised me by getting complicated…
tʰíl & ‘hard times’
Father Lionnet’s 1853 dictionary gloss of Jargon tʰil as French dur got me thinking…
On the source of tutúsh, or, help, I don’t understand Cree grammar!
Tutúsh ‘to nurse/suck; breast(s)/nipple; milk’ in Chinook Jargon is broadly acknowledged to trace back to an Algonquian source, back East.
One Grand Ronde word, and implications for Jargon adverbs
A use of a neat Jargon word that hasn’t been pointed out before…