Culture lessons: Things Chinuk Wawa doesn’t do (Part 8: keep it simple, stupid)
K.I.S.S.: Keep It Simple, Stupid! This can’t be stressed enough.
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Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 16: ‘to rest’)
Another word that we know as “typically Grand Ronde” (Oregon) was first documented at Shoalwater Bay, Washington…
Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 6: Deciphering a newly found song)
Tune unknown, which may be a clue for us.
AF Chamberlain’s field notes of Chinuk Wawa from SE British Columbia (Part 6: The rumours are true!)
Still more wonderful stuff from an eyewitness observer & speaker in BC!
Kamloops + other residential schools, as reported to Native people in Chinook (Part 9: the kids’ names and home communities)
Today’s report is very data-heavy, so it will be valuable for research into the Canadian “residential schools”, and for genealogy.
More humor in Chinuk Wawa: The culture of literacy
Something that often comes up in the old Chinook newspaper is an ability to see what’s funny in a negative experience.
1889, Comox, BC: A Siwash Santa Claus
Christmas-themed, if you squint 🤣
December 1894: “Our Monthly Budget” (Part 2 of 3 — Advent, and how to address letters)
Explaining new religious ideas to Native people involved trying to use their languages…
Myron Eells’s hymn book (Part 3: “Come to Jesus”)
Song #3 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):
1912: Address delivered at…Grand Ronde! (Part 4 of 5)
I made a new mini-series when…