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A short, single-paragraph item in a late-1870s newspaper uses Chinuk Wawa to comment on national economic policy.
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The Mazamas
Today I’m just reproducing the closing paragraph of a published invitation (otherwise in English) from the Pacific Northwest’s legendary mountaineering club, The Mazamas. (They still exist.)
Who Will Be Here
A genre of Chinuk Wawa literacy that we’re building quite the file of: the invitation (and the RSVP)…
Hand in mouth?
Chinuk Wawa was important for non-Whites’ testimony in frontier courts of law, as we so often find…
Sahalie Club organized
How fitting that a club called < Sahalie > ‘high; elevated’ had an elaborate hierarchy — in Chinuk Wawa.
La Chinuka Interlingvo per Esperanto
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Political dirty tricks (& a word discovery) in Chinuk Wawa
Election meddling, to skew the minority vote turnout? Old news…
Milling in Early Days
One interesting feature of this really interesting feature is the way it shows how frontier-era Chinuk Wawa speakers were highly aware of the quality of their own Jargon…
El Comancho — nationally syndicated?!
Walter Shelley “El Comancho” Phillips was quite the self-promoter…
Sin as a Jargon word (kinda the opposite of ‘sin’)
Not a word most of us would use every day, but it reflects a certain reality…