1870: From Our Warm Springs Correspondent (a tall tale)
Published letters to the editors of newspapers in earlier days were customarily signed with a pseudonym, to protect the writer’s anonymity…
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Quileute’s Chinuk Wawa (and other) traces
I’ve gradually been looking through linguistic documentation of Indigenous languages that have borrowed Chinook Jargon words, and today I come to Quileute…
Re-evaluating Boas’s 1888 “Chinook Songs” (Part 13, the finale)
We finish up with two last Chinook Jargon songs, plus a Tlingit mystery bonus.
1873: More about Yaquina Bay war rumors
Today we’re privileged to be told another version of a Chinuk Wawa conversation between an Oregon (or California) Coast Indian and a Settler woman.
FREE CHINOOK JARGON LESSONS!
Here’s how to get ’em…
Suggesting a Salish source for təná
Each year, I try to do a post or two on a Halloween theme; I guess today we’re dealing with the “trick” part of “trick or treat!”
1911: “Martha George” doggerel unexpectedly brings us a discovery
One of these days, and it won’t be long, I’m going to do a public reading drawing from the copious Northwest folk poetry we keep digging up here…
Re-evaluating Boas’s “Chinook Songs” (Part 12)
As we near the home stretch, we find some serious revisions necessary…
1869: Indian Excitement is the word on the street
What I love about today’s short-but-sweet note is that it’s so demonstrative…
1903: A variation on the “talking pidgin to brown people” joke
On this site, I’ve previously shown old news clippings that paint some clueless white person as a fool for talking Chinese Pidgin English, etc., to someone who turns out to be better educated… Continue reading