What “tum-tum” sounds like to English-speakers
I always wondered what “rooty-toot-toots and rummy-tum=tums” are…
I always wondered what “rooty-toot-toots and rummy-tum=tums” are…
Historical cycles mutate how we interpret the written evidence of our past.
Previously, thanks to the kind help of Dr. Henry Zenk (Grand Ronde Tribes), we’ve seen a petition in Grand Ronde Chinuk Wawa for the sainthood of the Indigenous woman Kateri Tekakwitha, sent in… Continue reading →
In the Chinuk Pipa alphabet of BC, they write < hlwima > for ‘strange; other’.
Joseph M. Snow (1850-1929), an immigrant of 1869, had a good memory for fluently spoken Chinuk Wawa, from his experiences with Native people in connection with the important question of land rights.
This is some valuable thinking from a colleague of mine.
Listen to a singer 100 years ago…and tell me if this is the famous “kʰánawi sán” song…
How is today’s writer like sweet Betseyannspikes?
This mid-century local colour piece managed to draw a number of surviving Chinuk Wawa speakers out of the woodwork.
Points to the Vancouver paper, for introducing its report on a Native potlatch with the culturally perceptive description that itʹs a “festival which is of a semi-religious character”.