1915: Campus Day at the high school; another new Chinook hymn?
News coverage of a day of beautifying the still new high school campus in one of Washington state’s “Tri-Cities” involves two obscure expressions.
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Métis people’s tracks in the BC Christmas landscape
The research I’ve been doing into the Métis linguistic presence in British Columbia leads to a timely discovery…
1878: Christmas at Neah Bay, and a clue to Jack’s 1881 CW letter
Well within the frontier period (some of Washington’s biggest cities hadn’t yet been founded!), Chinook Jargon was already being suppressed in some places…
1899 Xmas: Have you read the posters?
Another Chinook Jargon artifact from Kittitas County that I’d like to find…
1909: A hilarious Jargon song for Christmas
A nice local report of post-frontier Native celebration of Christmas in Umatilla County, northeastern Oregon.
1891: Poor old Angeline, getting tooted on?
Not do diminish the importance of this substantial human-interest piece about a major Native figure, but I suspect we have a rare Chinuk Wawa ‘fart’ sighting here…
SO MANY Métis words in interior PNW languages (Part 1: Dakelh)
In this mini-series, I’m not going to list all the Chinuk Wawa, and later English, loans found in each language. I’ll do that in separate articles. The idea here is to demonstrate to… Continue reading
1868: A newfound quote + 3 Indigenous speakers of BC Métis French
I’ve written a number of times about the Métis French that was BC’s lingua franca until Chinook Jargon — another Métis language — took over…
Loanwords into BC Interior Languages: Métis Traces
Continuing our exploration of Métis connections to the Pacific Northwest landscape, let’s feature several nouns from the interior of British Columbia.
1879: Capt. Jemmy Jones
I’ve been to the one on Tillicum Road, and I’ve seen baby strollers on the ice, but never a rascally rogue like Jemmy Jones!