Tinker to Evers to…Tinker?!
Tinker to Evers…and back to Tinker?! Reborrowing words after your language gave them away? It happens. “Long time no see.” “Can do.” “Pidgin.”
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Millicoma, or, fictional Chinuk Wawa noble savage humor
I’m mostly just transcribing the Chinuk Wawa sections from this folksy parody…
Chinook Jargon as a BC Aboriginal language
The following is an argument I wrote up as a grad student, a few years back. It’s keenly relevant now, eh?
How Mourning Dove was right: The Tee-hee-hee Stone
Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket, Humishuma) is well remembered for her telling of traditional Okanagan “Coyote Stories“.
“Surveying Central British Columbia”
. ..and taking excellent photos and detailed notes.
Hibben’s dictionary will help BC legislators
This was already an old chestnut by 1870!
“☞ y” man
(I meant to post this on Feb. 14th of course. Oops!) The Native “Chinook Writers” of British Columbia wrote as they spoke, charmingly. I now take you to Oregon for a seasonally relevant… Continue reading
Highass close scucum Boston man
In Idaho’s history, you have to look either mighty early or mighty late to scare up any Chinuk Wawa.
A discovery? The etymology of “bigfoot”
“Bigfoot”, as a synonym for the Salish-derived sasquatch or the Chinuk Wawa-derived stick Indian, had its first known use in 1958, says Merriam-Webster.
More of Fred Mock’s mock Jargon
Yesterday I wrote a little about Fred G. Mock and his fictional Chinuk Wawa, which is about all the documentation of the language that you’ll find for Idaho south of the border-straddling Kootenai… Continue reading