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.
This is an interesting version of a well-known Chinuk Wawa song, from an interesting source.
On “mamook law“: this involves some linguistic archaeology work.
Linguistic archaeology, at a shallow yet navigable depth…
Polaklie Illahee (Land of Darkness): Identity and Genocidal Culture in Oregon.
I know, I know…those 19th-century book titles…you’ll marvel at this one.
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.
The official publication commemorating the Lewis and Clark Centennial festivities in Portland, Oregon strenuously boosts the industries of the new land…
Here’s an oddity & a curiosity.
The northwest Oregon community of Rickreall is believed to take its name from some of its earliest settlers having been of Canadian French Métis background.
Untranslated Chinuk Wawa in an Alaska newspaper, frontier-era.