‘The country of the dead’ in Chinuk Wawa
Additional precious information from George Gibbs’s 1877 ethnography of “Tribes of Western Washington and Northwestern Oregon“…
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How to say ‘porcupine’
Not many people eat porcupines.
1863: Jargon in Malheur country and in Idaho
Here’s the sequel to a previous post of mine about the same book.
So many Métis words in interior PNW languages (Part 3: Interior northern Dene, beyond the Chinuk Wawa zone)
READER CHALLENGE: read on to see if you have ideas about some of the French source words!
siʔaɬ (Chief Seattle’s) speeches to back-translate: Part 3 of 3
Even more stuff to back-translate into Chinuk Wawa; we can do this!
Quinault Salish traces of Chinuk Wawa
When you’re looking through a dictionary or other document about an Indigenous language of the Pacific Northwest, beware of remarks intended to be helpful, but that are often misleading.
‘ABLE :: FAST’, an Indigenous metaphor
Sometimes you hear people say there’s a word in Chinook Jargon for ‘can’t’, but not for ‘can’…
1869: Psycho, the Demented gives a speech in Chenook (partly)
George Francis Train’s large head looms in California, and you can see it from my house!
1907: Southern interior BC Chinook conversations, and residential schools
One of my readers, Darrin Brager, was kind enough to send along a really interesting article that some condescending newspaper editor gave an unfortunate headline to.
A discovery: “Boston name” + more Métis horse naming influence
Really truly and for sure, I recommend Geo. Gibbs’s 1877 “Tribes of Western Washington and Northwestern Oregon” as a phenomenal, fun ethnographic read.