Danes in the Pacific NW, and Chinuk Wawa
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AF Chamberlain’s field notes of Chinuk Wawa from SE British Columbia (Part 2)
[Link to Part 1.] We can be grateful — Alexander Francis Chamberlain, one of the very first anthropological-linguistics students of Professor Franz Boas, was an early adopter of his teacher’s efforts to create… Continue reading
1893: Fred Reed is Lost
Settlers never tired of marveling at Native people who spoke good English.
1910 humor: Learn Chinook dancing from Mr. Foote of Chelan 😀
I appreciate that a dance instructor should be named Foote!
Kamloops + other residential schools, as reported to Native people in Chinuk Wawa (Part 5)
NOTE: There is no “Part 3” in this series, due to a numbering error.
1940: The yacht “All Wright”
A joke explained…
A new discovery: Why you should “count” on language change in Chinuk Wawa
A new discovery about southern vs. northern Chinuk Wawa dialect differences!
More humor in Chinuk Wawa: Taking care of business
This one is a very small joke, just a play on words that I find to be a very nice use of fluent Chinuk Wawa.
1895: WCTU singing in Chinook
The Oregon state convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, campaigners for the prohibition of alcohol, ended in a fun way.
“tuməch” in Chinuk Wawa
A charming multifunctional loan from the kind of English that was spoken around Native people in 1890s British Columbia is “too much”…it leads us to much insight into Grand Ronde’s Jargon, too.