James R. Anderson’s dad’s Métis plant names
James R. Anderson, a noted botanical authority in British Columbia, was the son of fur-trade era Chinook Jargon authority Alexander Caulfield Anderson.
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Earlyish recognition of Chinook-Chehalis Jargon, plus…
One of the few published mentions of the pidgin Haida of the early Northwest Coast maritime fur trade…
John Tod, Red River Métis, + New Caledonia (BC)
(Image credit: “Career of a Scotch Boy“) Active contributor LeAnn Riding got me thinking about BC Métis people, when she posted on our old CHINOOK listserv (remember listservs?) — “A while ago I… Continue reading
Pre-1907: An elder’s hypothesis
In a 2000 discussion on our old CHINOOK listserv, founder of modern Chinuk Wawa studies, Dr. Henry Zenk, shared a historical quotation from the Grand Ronde, Oregon, area:
‘Silverside salmon’ (coho) in Shoalwater Bay Chinuk Wawa
Add this to your Jargon dictionaries.
1892: Halo weight chickamen stop still
Recognizable in today’s clipping is some normal BC Chinook Jargon.
A “CJ” loan in Klamath tells us something more ancient
I was using M.A.R. Barker’s “Klamath Dictionary” (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1963) for some research — resulting in one article already on this site — when a really obvious loan word… Continue reading
1904: An invitation to another Uncle Joe Kuhn clambake
As much as Chinook invitations were a Pacific Northwest institution…
CW múwatʰwas ‘Modocs’ is Klamath for ‘Pit River Indians’
The 2012 Grand Ronde dictionary of Chinuk Wawa is our source for the word múwatʰwas ‘Modocs’.
Indigenous metaphor: ‘thing-Plural’ for ‘valued possessions’
Some linguistic work I was doing recently brought my attention back to the Lower Chehalis Salish word támtamaʔ ‘clothing; belongings; what you own’.