1891: Chinuk Wawa time capsule in Victoria, BC
It’s been 129 years — let’s dig this up & find out what the “book in Chinook” is!
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1893 (!) : Reminiscences of Nanaimo’s old days
Well, this article appears on what passed for the kids’ page, so the 1850s and 1860s would’ve seemed like long ago…
There’s more than one way for a cat to be skinned: Multiple CW quasi-passives, plus metatypy?
Hayu masi to Beth for commenting in chinuk-wawa…
The Catholic Digest tells about Chinuk Wawa shorthand…if you have the resources to access it
This being a capitalistic world…
Found: the Quasi-Passive, also in 1st-person plural
I’ve pointed out many times that the closest thing Chinuk Wawa has to a “passive voice”, parallel to English “I really got cheated”, is to literally say “they did it”.
1907: Suggested carnival names
“Snuggestions” (!) for the name of a post-frontier Walla Walla carnival’s “main street” included several in Chinuk Wawa…
1902: The Tillicum Hiyu Wawa Club of Aberdeen
Another of the many social clubs in the post-frontier Pacific Northwest that took Chinuk Wawa names…
“Cheechoko’s Dream” song
A misspelled Jargon word is a clue to some missing songs…
1902: The Red Law and the White
Lavishly illustrated by a B.J. Rosenmeyer, today’s excerpt looks suspiciously made-up…
‘Pull out’ or ‘pole out’? CW as a tool in Salish research
While working on Thomas Paul’s “Sametl” story with our weekend Zoom group, I may have discovered something…