Part 2: MORE CHINOOK JARGON WORDS: In part 1 of this mini-series, we saw the list put together by Melville Jacobs of the Chinuk Wawa words he noticed being used in K’alapuyan languages… Continue reading
Uncovering another stealth loan that streaked past previous researchers…
I’m starting another mini-series, making the case that there’s much, much more Grand Ronde Chinuk Wawa in a classic collection of “Kalapuya Texts”.
For several years, I’ve been wanting to write more about saibashi…
Shifting to quite common species, we learn on page 221 of the mid-1850s railroad survey about the Franklin’s grouse…
From an extremely obscure little Chinuk Wawa newspaper…
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.
Did you know? Want ads were a thing, in the earliest days of Chinuk Wawa literacy…
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.
