“Skukum makmak” ad
From an extremely obscure little Chinuk Wawa newspaper…
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Hidden discoveries: Extinct animals & creole-pidgin ethnozoology (Part 2)
I’ve started a mini-series on previously obscure animals and species names in the 1850s “Reports of Explorations…” for a railroad line across the Northwest.
Used boots ad
Did you know? Want ads were a thing, in the earliest days of Chinuk Wawa literacy…
Hidden discoveries: Extinct animals & creole-pidgin ethnozoology (Part 1)
There are precious nuggets of previously unknown Chinuk Wawa, reported on the spot in the 1850s, to be panned from the torrent of raw information in an old railroad survey.
Baptiste of Shhkaltkmah writes to the editor
A young Secwepemc man writes with news of a tragedy…
Where does the compound síl-háws (tent) come from?
Beyond etymology is linguistic archaeology™.
Siletz, or “Lo” Reconstructed
Early in the reservation era, Chinuk Wawa is a force at Siletz & the rest of southwest Oregon…
Naughty Jargon in public, 1917?
Oh no he didn’t! Did he?
“LiksK” (kopa naika mama)
Spelled variously (how about < exstlem oksio > ), but all one rite of passage.
Local humour: Expensive mowich and Indian illihees
The Chinuk Wawa loanwords here are self-explanatory, so they don’t detract from the fun.