Seattle: Day in Court for Indians, 1899
From a pretty racist newspaper article, let’s excerpt just its cartoon and one paragraph.
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Nicola 1904: Sad Accident (Part 3)
Good news and bad news, as this tale of misfortune goes on…
Dominick
I sure wish I could’ve met and talked with this remarkable Syilx (Okanagan) man.
A cussin’ political opinion
In the “Let’s Look at More West Coast Pidgin Languages” Department:
Shoalwater Bay stories, part 3
Kind of delayed, but not to worry: here’s part 3 of our mini-series, a 1913 collection of “Stories and Sketches from Pacific County“, by Isaac H. Whealdon.
‘Friend’ is from Nez Perce?
A newish book that I recently finished, and found to be an absorbing reading experience, is Debra Gwartney’s mixed memoir-biography, “I Am a Stranger Here Myself“, dealing with the life of early Protestant… Continue reading
Nicola 1904: Sad Accident (Part 2)
Gory details ensue in this second part of a tragic mini-series…
Chinuk Wawa & “Tribes” of I.O.R.M.
The “Improved Order of Red Men” had a long association with Chinuk Wawa…
Freshwater háykwa?
Eileen Delehanty Pearkes’s “North of the Border” column in North Columbia Monthly of July 2019, titled “A Pearl of Great Price’, relays an amazing bit of traditional Salish knowledge.
1900: Tlingit Indians’ word for ‘Mounties’
It’s the rule more than an exception, that we discover some signficant new point whenever Chinuk Wawa turns up in an old newspaper story.