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A good question came up from Thinley Norbu in Facebook’s large Chinook Jargon community…
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Pre-1917: Ka-mi-akin, the Last Hero of the Yakimas (part 1 of 2)
Click to access kamiakinlasthero00spla.pdf A classic of Washington territorial literature by Andrew Jackson “Jack” Splawn (1845-1917).
McArthur’s “Oregon Geographic Names” (part 2 of 8)
PLenty more Jargon-related place names in Oregon…
All about barfing
The idea for this post came up as I revisited Victoria Howard’s tale “Just One His Leg, Just One His Arm”…
1896: Obituary of a CW court interpreter
Many a time, we’ve seen that Chinuk Wawa had a crucial role in Settler legal proceedings…
A rarity: ubut contains a French preposition; why?
Grand Ronde CW speech preserves for us one of the most fascinating French-Canadian-origin words in this language…
1869: Capt. Christensen interprets, Victoria, BC
Captain James Christensen (1840-1927), an 1864 Danish immigrant to Victoria, played a pivotal part in a grisly frontier-era episode on Vancouver Island, which I present to you today.
When did Chinookan ideophones come into CW?
hayu masi to Henry Zenk for a comment that brought this question to mind.
One scholar’s commentary on Gibbs using CW in N. California
Click to access ucp014-004.pdf Here’s one expert who concludes Indian Commissioner Redick McKee’s use of George Gibbs as a Chinuk Wawa interpreter with NW California tribes was, well, Redick-ulous 🙂
1866: One Clayoquot Siwash could kill 3 man-of-war’s men
Among other things, the following frontier-era anecdote adds yet more proof that English man-of-war was an established Chinuk Wawa word in the Vancouver Island area…