“The Industrial School”, you understand, was the first of the names of the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Today’s selection from the always high-quality Chinuk Wawa sentences of George Gibbs focuses on giving orders. I reckon we’d say iskam (Ø)! to tell a dog to ‘fetch!’ Read on…
Our BC friend Dale McCreery has shared quite a few of his personal encounters with Chinuk Wawa in the last several years.
Howdy from Kamloops, BC, where I’m doing a bit of Chinook stuff today!
Song #5 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):
A sight that would’ve been familiar to many readers of the “Chinook Paper” was this frontier scene…
Today, George Gibbs teaches us something about the Southern Dialect’s ‘when/where’…
The implication behind Father JMR Le Jeune’s presenting this list of words seems to be that they’re considered to be Chinook Jargon somewhere else than British Columbia…
Today, I want to share some things from Rianna Robertson-LeVay’s article…
Okay, class, settle down.
