More about Won Alexander Cumyow and a connection with Sir James Douglas
A little more info for you on a person who might soon appear on Canadian currency…
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1911 letter: Mrs. Kenny Was True Pioneer
A not-so-tiptop typesetter gives us mildly muddled, but still interesting, Chinook Jargon and English from post-frontier southwest Oregon.
A reason for “klaksta-man”
A short note about the northern (BC) dialect.
Fort Astoria sign gets a rewrite
“Fort Astoria Sign Gets a Rewrite“
mamuk-hayu- in BC CW, and the history of Reduplication
There are real grammar differences between the newer/northern and older/southern dialects, as I call them, of Chinuk Wawa…
tq’iẋ = q’at?
Here’s a new etymological thought…
Cheechako and Nuuchahnulth?
Another mysterious word of Nuučaan’uł (Southern branch of Wakashan family) that’s reported to us by G.M. Sproat (1868:128)…
My vacation photos, part 5
Part 5 of 5! Seen in Langley, Whidbey Island, Washington…
Lukameen, a Thanksgiving dish as American as apple pie
A tip of the hat to Jack George for this seasonal find…
El Comancho’s Washington, DC newspaper column on Chinook Jargon (1 of 6)
El Comancho (1867-1940) is said to have renamed himself thus, after supposedly being named “The Comanche” by a Sioux chief.