Stick Indian sighting in the Dalles! I’ve been realizing that “Stick Indian” has to be quite an old conventionalized Chinook Jargon expression. In George Gibbs’s “Indian Tribes of Washington Territory” (an edition by… Continue reading
“Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon, and California, 1865-1881″ Boston: Lee and Shepard / New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1884 The title and subtitle tell you… Continue reading
What, product placements in a Chinook Jargon blog? 🙂 I enjoy posting photos of Chinook Jargon realia! (Fancy word meaning “iktas”!) This is my Raven’s Brew “Skookum Blend” coffee go cup. I can’t… Continue reading
Still, nobody has come up with a (Chinook?) salmon emoticon. Seriously, this is the first result in Google Images when you go fishing for one: All right, I’m offering a $10 bill to… Continue reading
By Mrs Frances Fuller Victor. Philadelphia: JH Lippincott, 1891. Read below to help crowd-source an analysis of it! This book is pretty lightweight, being padded with secondary material from other people’s historical accounts:… Continue reading
I had to pull off the highway when I saw the sign for “Indian Shaker Church Road” at Mud Bay. This is a Native Christian denomination that has a strong historical association, I’ve… Continue reading
I notice a couple more bits of possible “hidden” Chinook Jargon in southwestern Washington Salish. ta’nasloɬ, ta nasloɬ “trough dish” (Upper Chehalis) The -loɬ is a lexical suffix meaning “dish”. What do you… Continue reading
I mentioned that you find the coolest, un-indexed Chinook Jargon words scattered through all sorts of other materials. Those words can tell you a lot of surprising stories about how CJ was being… Continue reading
I was trying to figure out a long, complicated and obscure Lower Chehalis word by comparisons with nearby languages when I came upon a Chinook Jargon loan into Upper Chehalis Salish. M. Dale… Continue reading
When you listen to the traditional stories, you get to reach your own conclusions. What do you think of mine? Here are some words for ‘louse’ in Salish languages of Chinook Jargon’s homeland,… Continue reading
