1881-1882: CW & Métis French on the upper Columbia in Washington
Both of the Pacific NW Métis languages show up in a couple of later frontier narratives of north-central Washington…
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Bella Coola CW song, and more…
Reader challenge! Has any of you heard the “Chinook Love Song by Pat Schooner” from Bella Coola (Nuxalk country, BC)?
1880s?: Ellensburg, WA area
A family recollection that I originally shared on the old CHINOOK listserv merits re-posting here…
1858: Jargon humor in California
One byproduct of the Fraser River gold rush of 1858 was that Oregon gained even greater prominence in the minds of Californians, who found its inhabitants oddballs.
1914: Mamook kopet cultus potlatch
Everybody knew that the Canadian Settler government had outlawed traditional Native potlatches.
So many Métis words in interior PNW languages (Part 4: St’át’imcets / “Lillooet” Salish)
I’ve been tracing the linguistic footprints of Canadian Métis people in our Pacific Northwest region.
1893: Chinook chat with BC Natives in Chicago
An excerpt from still another published account of talking Chinook with BC Native people who were on exhibit (yup) at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.
t’əmánəwas-mán, a discovery
George Gibbs uses quite a number of Chinuk Wawa phrases in his amazing ethnography from 1877…
Didactic dialogues in dictionaries of Chinuk Wawa (Part 3: JK Gill / FN Blanchet)
Spoiler alert: there’s a real Grand Ronde connection here.
The “Slavey Jargon”/rubbaboo as a trace of Métis in the far Northwest
Hayu masi / maarsii to Dr. Keren Rice, my linguist colleague who kindly shared a copy of Craig Mishler’s 2008 article with me.