1868, AK: A greenhorn and the Lingít
A year after the USA took over Alaska from the Russians, a letter arrived in one of the eastern states from one of the first Army personnel to be stationed in the territory’s… Continue reading
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1887, BC: “The Pot-latchers”, a super-racist piece
REALLY RACIST, FYI.
Why it’s hard to decide what the Northern Chinook Jargon word for a ‘car’ is
In our fun (I say awesome because I’m from the 80s) Northern Chinook Jargon sessions, sometimes lately we’ve talked about how to say ‘a car’.
Sunday (Oct. 12) @ 7PM: Join us to talk northern Chinook Jargon!
I care this much about gathering folks into our thriving NCJ language nest —
WA: Sequim Press, Part 4 (04/22/1921, “pepah wawa”)
Short & sweet!
1872, BC: Was justice served by this Jargon translator?
Do you think this Chinuk Wawa interpreter, and the Settler court, did right by the Indigenous defendant here?
1914: LBDB’s “Chinook-English Songs”, part 8 of 15 “Chaco Mitlite Sapolill” (Comin’ Thro’ the Rye)
Sure, Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett (1851?-1933) was a genuine pioneer (“of 1853” as they’d say) Settler kid.
Another example of how clunky Chinuk Pipa’s own number symbols were
Right now I’m not re-finding the document, but in one edition of “Sténographie Duployé”, a textbook of the French-language ancestor of Chinuk Pipa, I found this:
1885, Nesbit: “Tide Marshes of the United States”
The title (no pun intended) page of David Montgomery Nesbit’s “Tide Marshes of the United States” (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1885) mentions our Chinook-speaking friend Eldridge Morse!
1881, OR: “Chenook”-speaking Webfoot discovers a comet
In the summer of 1881, a newly noticed comet was all over the newspaper pages.