Now you know: I think “pittuck” is from Salish (+a Chinuk Wawa meditation)
The other day, my readers saw an obscure Jargon word used for ‘to think’: “pittuck“.
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Star Seattle Story Book — Laura Belle Downey Bartlett’s pioneer girlhood?
Announced in the Seattle Star newspaper on April 14, 1920, Mabel Cleland’s “Star Seattle Story Book” was a Chinook Jargon treat, free for the asking. It seems to have run as a serial for a… Continue reading
Americana music: Lelooska, Jock-a-mo, & Chinuk Wawa songs
This is an interesting version of a well-known Chinuk Wawa song, from an interesting source.
“Talking” about Aboriginal legal systems v. colonizer laws
On “mamook law“: this involves some linguistic archaeology work.
Capt. John Irving’s BC Chinuk Wawa address
Linguistic archaeology, at a shallow yet navigable depth…
Polaklie Illahie
Polaklie Illahee (Land of Darkness): Identity and Genocidal Culture in Oregon.
Fictional Chinuk Wawa resulting from bad research
I know, I know…those 19th-century book titles…you’ll marvel at this one.
Another fin-de-siecle plutocrat bragging he knows Chinook Jargon
G.F. Train may have showed up and “learned Chinook in 15 minutes“, but Owen Humphreys Churchill, 1841-1916, emigrated as a ten-year-old to southwest Oregon’s Umpqua Valley with his family.
“In racy Chinook”: Grand Ronde, hops, & squaredancing
The official publication commemorating the Lewis and Clark Centennial festivities in Portland, Oregon strenuously boosts the industries of the new land…
Intertribal canoe race: A challenge in Chinook
Here’s an oddity & a curiosity.