1840s?: Willamette Natives bargain over Christianity
A great quotation from the old CHINOOK Listserv…
A great quotation from the old CHINOOK Listserv…
Jacilee Wray wrote a very good book on “Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are” (2002: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK) that I recommend to you.
I’ve been tracing the linguistic footprints of Canadian Métis people in our Pacific Northwest region.
Many, many place names north of Louisiana, and from the Missouri River westward, are Métis whether you realize that they were originally French or not.
Certain words are extremely important in M.A.R. Barker’s 1963 Klamath Dictionary.
Early days in Salish linguistics: you had your “Salt Water” Selish, your “Horse” Selish (Nisqually), your “Kwillehiut” Selish (the unrelated Quileutes!), your Yakama Snohomish Selish (the unrelated Sahaptians!), and such.
Why did drét become the only word for ‘very’, but only in the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation community of Oregon?
85+ Red River Settlement connections with Chinook Wawa’s Métis homeland
James Neall (1820-1903) was a Maine man who lived in the Oregon Country frontier from 1845 to 1848.
Jedediah Strong Smith (1799-1831) and pals were the first US folks to reach the Oregon Country from California.