Chinook Jargon songs, part 1
Have you heard a version of this song? Let me know. (See also part 2, part 3 and part 4.) As found in the second edition of a really authoritative collection with musical… Continue reading
Have you heard a version of this song? Let me know. (See also part 2, part 3 and part 4.) As found in the second edition of a really authoritative collection with musical… Continue reading →
Oral history reminiscences of Chinuk pipa (‘Chinook writing’, the endangered writing system associated with Chinook Jargon in southern interior British Columbia. DOCUMENT NAME/INFORMANT: DAVID & CELESTINE JOHNSON #1 INFORMANT’S ADDRESS: ALKALI LAKE RESERVE BRITISH COLUMBIA INTERVIEW… Continue reading →
I wonder if any readers of the Chinook Jargon blog have a connection, or an inspiration: Who can CAT-scan a worn, carved inscription? Or PET scan. Or X-ray. Or ultrasound. There are more… Continue reading →
Speidel, William C. 1967. Sons of the profits: Or, there’s no business like grow business! / The Seattle story, 1851-1901. Seattle, WA: Nettle Creek Publishing Company. An entertaining local history, told with a… Continue reading →
Brokenshire, Doug. 1993. Washington State place names: From Alki to Yelm. Caldwell, ID: Caxton. The author of this reader-friendly volume focuses more on the histories associated with the place names than on their… Continue reading →
As mentioned in the original post about “Story of a Stump“, I’m providing a decipherment of the shorthand text. Here it is, numbered by lines of the original. Note that the translation in… Continue reading →
From Everybody’s Magazine (did O. Henry really edit it?). Volume X, number 2 (February 1904), page 292. “Delate hyas kloshe papah. Halo kultus wawa kopa ocoke Konaway Tilacums. Delate skoom kumamook [sic]. … Continue reading →
[Final installment. See previous episodes for more info on this fascinating pioneer memoir…life in the Okanogan Highlands of Washington State, 1880s-1930s. Most of what I’ve excerpted in this blog happened in the last… Continue reading →
Actually several points about this Chinook Jargon blog. I tag the posts to help their content be searchable in Google. But my tagging system will change. I’ve learned that a person’s idea of… Continue reading →
The superbly readable naturalist-historian Jack Nisbet of Spokane has a column “Boundaries” in the free North Columbia Monthly, out of Colville. Thanks to Jack for this find… His current (April 2012) column is… Continue reading →