Crowdsourcing challenge: a Lingít Chinuk Wawa song!
My reader Alex Code shared a Chinook Jargon song that I don’t think I ever knew about…
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Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 8: ‘grandchild’)
In Franz Boas’s neglected masterpiece, the one-page article “The Chinook Jargon“, we learn another Salish-sourced word…
1876: “Snass” in the classical Chinook
Kind of unusual to see “cole snass” ‘snow’ abbreviated to “snass” (‘rain’)!
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4F (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences) — a deep dive!
The sixth part our mini-mini-series on George Gibbs’s 1863 example sentences of Chinuk Wawa takes you to the water, and drops you in. Let’s go deep!
Miller 1999 “Chehalis-Area Traditions” and Métis people of southwest Washington
Really well-done ethnographies of PNW tribal cultures will provide us with endless amounts of material to translate into Chinuk Wawa.
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 7)
More discoveries!
“Otter” words come from Fort Vancouver
There is one widespread SW Washington Salish word for ‘otter’ — and then there’s also “skaləmən”.
The Mission Field and “Chinhook” (Part 5 of 6)
Another British Protestant missionary to Vancouver Island, BC, in the frontier era, reports Chinuk Wawa in use a number of times…
Native weather forecast/prophecy
What’s up with that? Settlers just loved to ask Native elders for a longterm weather forecast…
Blankenship, “Early History of Thurston County, Washington” (Part 1)
Sometimes a dollar spent on a book pays off many times over!