Author Archive

Albert Veranous Franklin, Tatla Lake, BC, talks Chinook

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Thanks to Sam Sullivan and Robert ‘Rob’ ‘Lucky’ Budd for pointing this gem out!   Robert Budd’s hit book “Voices of British Columbia” sounds like a great read!  Here is a little something… Continue reading →

The Chinook Jargon blog is back from vacation

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Klahowya!  LaXawyam!  New work is on its way. The Chinook Jargon blog is back from summer vacation. I have a ton of posts ready to draft and share with you. Look forward to… Continue reading →

Tomanowish and the Nespelim riders, conversing in Chinook with the buckayros

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From a first-class book out of Washington State University Press in Pullman, WA titled Forgotten Trails: Historical Sources of the Columbia’s Big Bend Country by Ron Anglin (1995): Page 145: In July of 1858,… Continue reading →

Mary Moses’s statement

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Mary Moses’s Statement. Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon, 1988.  (No author or editor credited.) Another invaluable publication by Glen Adams about Inland Northwest history.  Man, the Ye Galleon catalog must be hundreds of items… Continue reading →

Opening the remaining half of the Colville Reservation to settlement, 1906

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The context of the book I’m blogging about today is that in 1906 there was a plan to throw open the remaining, southern, half of the Colville Indian Reservation in north-central Washington state… Continue reading →

Methow Valley, 1901: “I learned to speak their language, Chinook”

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From Diana Hottell’s “The Whole Damn Valley: Voices from the Methow” (2007, Winthrop, WA: Shafer Historical Museum), page 55, ‘Perry Clark on Indians’: “There were far more Indians than whites here during the… Continue reading →

Trophy hunter meets Klootchman, a story of initiative

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The excellent little North Columbia Monthly newspaper has a column “North of the Border” by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes. Each month, she explores Sinixt (Lakes) Salish people’s relationship with their environment. For July 2013, Pearkes focuses… Continue reading →

Townsend’s narrative: Bird Chief and the Indian dogs

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J.K. Townsend.  1839.  Narrative of a journey across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River…  Philadelphia: Henry Perkins. At least in the Chinook Jargon world, this book by an influential naturalist is an… Continue reading →

Two Dianas in Alaska, denigrating Salish women

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Two Dianas in Alaska. By Agnes Herbert and A. Shikari (pseudonym). London : John Lane, The Bodley Head / New York : John Lane Company. MCMIX. These snide English ladies (one a member… Continue reading →

Jargon watch and bricks

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WordPress offered to automatically proofread this blog for “jargon”. Thank you, WordPress, you’re a brick! Wish I could set it to automatically scan for bricks!