There are a number of discoveries in this 9th installment of our look at Alexander Francis Chamberlain’s field documentation of the Northern Dialect of Chinook Jargon.
“The Industrial School”, you understand, was the first of the names of the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Today’s selection from the always high-quality Chinuk Wawa sentences of George Gibbs focuses on giving orders. I reckon we’d say iskam (Ø)! to tell a dog to ‘fetch!’ Read on…
Our BC friend Dale McCreery has shared quite a few of his personal encounters with Chinuk Wawa in the last several years.
Howdy from Kamloops, BC, where I’m doing a bit of Chinook stuff today!
Song #5 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):
A sight that would’ve been familiar to many readers of the “Chinook Paper” was this frontier scene…
Today, George Gibbs teaches us something about the Southern Dialect’s ‘when/where’…
The implication behind Father JMR Le Jeune’s presenting this list of words seems to be that they’re considered to be Chinook Jargon somewhere else than British Columbia…
Today, I want to share some things from Rianna Robertson-LeVay’s article…
