1953: Siwash Social at Seattle U.
Waaaay past frontier times, a Seattle University (well, *the* Seattle University) kept Chinuk Wawa alive as a campus tradition.
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Mamuk is a killer?
Add this to our collection of awful translations of Chinook Jargon.
James G. Swan’s diary (1859-63)
Shortly after living on Shoalwater Bay, Washington Territory, where he wrote his famous memoir / document of Chinook Jargon…
‘Angry’ because of White people?
Chinuk Wawa’s basic word sáliks surprised me the other day.
‘Wait’, but don’t ‘wait for’, the origin of the Jargon quasi-Passive!
Weit is the most common way to express ‘wait’ in British Columbia-style Chinook Wawa.
Possessed penis
A basic anatomical word whose etymology hasn’t been fully explained before…
1907: A (mis-)remembered central Washington “Lord’s Prayer”?
A Lord’s Prayer that giveth, and taketh away!
Indian Heaven: more about sáx̣ali-íliʔi
I’ve written recently that sáx̣ali-íliʔi is an old lower Columbia phrase in Chinuk Wawa for highlands, uplands, mountainous territory, uphill, and so on.
Chinuk Wawa isn’t “Nominative-Accusative” nor “Ergative-Absolutive”
This is either a trivial point or a huge one.