“Colonial Despatches” (Part 2: the 1867 BC chiefs’ letter)
Here’s a new and improved post about a remarkable document that I’ve discussed previously.
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1841: The Wilkes expedition and the earliest “artificial” CW place names
I’ve previously reported here, with some excitement, that the US Exploring Expedition commanded by Charles Wilkes documented Fort Vancouver-era place names on the lower Columbia River…
BC First Nations Chinuk Wawa: Who’s in charge of helping? It’s complicated
Linguistically, “helping” is a real, real interesting thing.
McArthur’s “Oregon Geographic Names” (part 7 of 8)
We’ve made a number of interesting discoveries as we’ve worked through the preceding six installments of this mini-series; now let’s see what awaits us in our next-to-last episode…
1795-1796: Bishop’s “Ruby” journals, and an amorphous NW Coast Jargon
I recently wrote a little about how Captain Charles Bishop’s ship “Ruby” may have been the first to linger in the Pacific Northwest, and thus may have inspired Chinuk Wawa.
1888: A sermon by Myron Eells (part 6 of 6)
Finishing up our deep look into Reverend Myron Eells’ quite fluent late-frontier Christian sermon addressed to a Native audience…
Toward a deeper-rooted etymology of saplél
It should be a Sahaptian-family word, shouldn’t it, judging by where it was first documented?
Native people’s voices in “Kamloops Wawa” (Part 1 )
An argument between an Indigenous man and a priest in British Columbia…
19th c.: THE BRITISH COLONIST (Part 1: Chinook as a big-city language)
1878: “Court of Assize: Before Mr. Justice Crease” is the headline…
Indigenizing the Katolik Styuil: Marriage and consent
Chinuk Wawa research got me thinking about the expression of consent…