1867: Reconstruction-era political comment, in 2 pidgins
Not translated when published, and I doubt I have to translate it for you…
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McArthur’s “Oregon Geographic Names” (part 8 of 8)
The long-delayed grand finale of our mini-series on Oregon place names that have to do with Chinuk Wawa…
The extremely compelling “Nootka Jargon” word list from Jewitt 1815
In a very early (1815) edition of his memoir of Vancouver Island captivity (1803-1805), John Rodgers Jewitt added a nice one-page vocabulary of Nuuchahnulth…
Is this offensive word in Chinuk Wawa from métis French?
Here is a small set of real, if objectionable, data that I ask you to seriously analyze:
Why is shouting so new in Chinuk Wawa?
Chinuk Wawa kʰriyé / kʰrí, a synonym of kʰ(i)láy, means ‘to yell, holler, shout’. (Image credit: Briar Patch magazine) It’s obviously Canadian/métis French-looking; compare crier in that language. kʰriyé / kʰrí might, like other French-to-CW words, come… Continue reading
1828: Jedediah Smith, Harrison Rogers, and SW Oregon as a suburb of Ft Vancouver
Jedediah Strong Smith (1799-1831) and pals were the first US folks to reach the Oregon Country from California.
JP Harrington’s letters in Grand Ronde-ish Chinuk Wawa (part 2 of 2)
The legendary linguist of Native American languages, John Peabody Harrington (1884-1961), worked with quite a number of Chinook Jargon speakers, and documented some great stuff from them.
tíntin ‘bell’ isn’t *just* onomatopoeic
Everyone seems to sing the same tune, that tíntin is an onomatopoeia, but does that really “count” as an etymology?
Didactic dialogues in dictionaries of Chinuk Wawa (Part 2: H Hale)
The second installment in our mini-series on instructional sentences of Jargon has an especially great importance…
Métis/Canadian French and Indigenous customs of tobacco-smoking
The published collection of “Kalapuya Texts” contains, as text #29, a description of aboriginal customs around tobacco use.