“Mary Had a Little Lamb”, with a side of linguistic archaeology
True story: There was a late-1800s vogue for jokey versions of the kids’ nursery rhyme, “Mary Had a Little Lamb“.
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Joe Kuhn’s picnic
Another Chinuk Wawa document that we need to find…and a good light summer read!
Hops, Grand Ronde, lake berries, and humor
Linguistic archaeology means thinking twice, no doubt.
Recommended: “Chinuk Wawa Phrase of the Week” videos
I always try to respond to my readers’ requests…
The Yaquina Indian troubles: Mrs. Kistler’s statement, & linguistic archaeology
(Edited 10/27/2019 to mention my followup to this article.) A hoax to provoke a racist war?
“A Tale of the Shining Tide” from Shoalwater Bay
Warning: fictional Chinuk Wawa, set on Shoalwater Bay but starring Plains Indians?
Oregon as it was: By an old pioneer (big Métis-Grand Ronde connection)
I loved finding this article where an oldtimer tells what Métis life was like in the early settlement era — leading into the early reservation era — in Grand Ronde’s neighborhood.
Chinuk Wawa ‘branch’ is from Salish
Another Chinook Jargon word from Salish: ‘branch’.
I go on, much speculating: an additional source for Chinuk Wawa’s Progressive prefix
I’ve written about how various words “grammaticalized” in Chinook Jargon, developing from original literal senses such as “make” and “come”, into prefixes and such.