Author Archive

LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 14

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Here’s a good one: banning Native immigration!

Sojourning Sisters

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Thank goodness, there’s another fine book by BC’s master historian Jean Barman to share with you!

LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 13

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  Short and sweet: no more slavery.

And I’m determined to get the Jargon!

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That feeling when you get hooked on this language is portrayed in a video clip: (I hope this video embeds & shows up all right!)https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/embed/fe09ff12-e8d2-4fbc-941e-3ab444a48b67?autoplay=false

LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 12

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Education and health care…

“Should” we see Salish influence in Chinuk Wawa commands?

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A hot lead, or a cold “should”er?

LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 11

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Prohibition, 1855 racially-segregated style.

Whiskey Joe

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Now to Okanagan/Spokane country, from The Coast…

LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 10

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A law talking about laws. 

A Chinook “Wawa Wawa”

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