An excellent book can be made more excellent by hiring a linguist. Today I’m commenting briefly about: The People are Dancing Again: The History of the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon, by Charles Wilkinson… Continue reading
Maybe I shouldn’t be so tough on the author of this Popular Science Monthly feature (June 1889, pages 257-261). In his “The Chinook Language or Jargon” — which follows an interesting argument with Prof. Huxley on… Continue reading
The superb “Civil War Day by Day” blog (“from the Louis Round Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill”) put up a post about 4 years ago that contained a… Continue reading
I’m not too sure that botanist David Douglas’s 1820s journal notes on early Chinook Jargon have ever been published. A few isolated words in his daily entries, to be sure, have made it into… Continue reading
Pi naika wawa “Mirri Krismas” pi “Hapi Nyu Iiiir” kopa msaika. Kanawi tilikom mitlait kopa Kamlups, klaska wiht wawa kakwa kopa msaika. And I say “Merry Christmas” and “Happy New Year” to you folks. Everyone who lives… Continue reading
One fictional (1898): And one factual (1897): Just try and tell the difference! A lot of team yells several decades ago sported equally nonsensical blends of Chinook Jargon and, um, white-people vocables.
La Salle “Sallie” Corbell Pickett, third wife of Confederate general George E. Pickett of the doomed Pickett’s Charge, wrote a number of publications including her 1899 book, “Pickett and his Men” (Atlanta: Foote… Continue reading
The Kamloops people can be counted on to keep taking twenty copies… (Previous installment here.) Alta msaika nanich kata ukuk Kamlups Now you folks can see what this “Kamloops… Continue reading
GLENCOE ITEMS. From the Washington Independent (Hillsboro, OR), Sep. 2, 1875, page 2, column 2. The Siwash difficulty mentioned by the Independent, wherein some young bucks had run off with some other Indians’ wives terminated… Continue reading
[The pope] placed his hand on Louis’ and Celestin’s [Chillihitzia’s] head, [and] he also gave a large medal to them (Previous installment here.) Sint Irin ankati tlap kopa Shirusalim ukuk shin, pi iaka lolo [NULL] St… Continue reading
