The Tilikums of Elttaes were “a bunch of boosters“. Do you know more about them? Add it in a comment. Their early 20th-century organization was headed by a Hyas Tyee or Tyee Kopa Konaway. It… Continue reading
How would you say ‘silhouette’ in CJ?
A 1914 publicity stunt by Seattle civic boosters was “the Star-Smith-Tilikum wedding”…
By 1914, it was becoming somewhat challenging to find a confident speaker of Chinuk Wawa on Puget Sound…
The ubiquitous Tillikums of Elttaes again! I might have known!
You know sparks will fly. A Jargon song, and lots of other Olympic Peninsula Chinook Jargon recollections, from an early settler who styled himself “The Patriarch”.
Strangest Places Dept.: I quote verbatim from San Francisco insurance-trade publication The Adjuster (volume 40, number 1; January 1910, page 14), adding [in brackets] my English translations. My comments follow afterward. Tilikums Ikt… Continue reading
