Whidbey Island and Chinook Jargon: a roundup
I’ve never collected together all of my previous discussion of Whidbey Island, Washington in regard to Chinuk Wawa.
I’ve never collected together all of my previous discussion of Whidbey Island, Washington in regard to Chinuk Wawa.
Thanks to the wonderful community radio station KSER 90.7 in Everett, I heard this bit of Chinuk Wawa in the community.
I understand that that’s the Canadian price. But I have many other questions.
I’ve driven by this place many a time on my vacations!
A word you might not have noticed in the awesome 2012 Grand Ronde Tribes dictionary of Chinuk Wawa is wálamsh ‘Rogue River tribe’ (from southwest Oregon).
Just into the post-frontier period, one western Washington political candidate’s name made him a target.
Today I’m on Whidbey Island, WA, on a research & writing trip.
The Southern Dialect Chinuk Wawa word for ‘Tillamook’ people is t̓ilímuksh, which is not those Salish people’s own word for themselves (Hutyéyu as I recall).
At the inauguration of new Spokane Tribe Chief Jim Sam in the post-frontier days, many witnesses were present from other tribes.
Long story short: where X and Y are common nouns, “n X (kopa) n Y” = “n number of things X per n number of things Y” in Chinook Jargon.