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Chinook in our lives: the Tloosh Tumtum Native Educator Fellowship

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Today, I just realized, is the dealine for this excellent opportunity: The Tloosh Tumtum Native Educator Fellowship (click that link!) Tloosh tumtum is ɬúsh-tə́mtəm, ‘good heart’ — and many more meanings, depending on the… Continue reading

Another Chinuk Wawa book for the kids: “Kalapuya-Chinuk wawa Ikanum”

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I’m happy to report that I’ve received a 3-book bundle in the mail, containing another Chinuk Wawa book for kids.

Poor eyesight: How “ulchey” mistakenly got into CJ dictionaries as ‘moose’

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No later than the 14th edition (1902) of his partially plagiarized popular Chinook Jargon dictionary, John K Gill of Portland, Oregon was saying with a straight face that < ulchey > means ‘moose’ in… Continue reading

Free download! “Thompson River Salish Dictionary”

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Thanks to “Lyttonites” on Facebook.

2020: “Don’t destroy the writing”

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Chinook Jargon-related research:

A mis-filed archival item about “Kamloops Wawa”

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At the National Centre for Truth & Reconciliation’s online archive of historical documents, I notice that a document relating to the Chinook Jargon newspaper Kamloops Wawa is misfiled. 

Why did Gibbs 1863 call ‘hazelnut’ a K’alapuyan word?

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Why did George Gibbs say that the Chinook Jargon word for ‘hazelnut; nuts generally’ is K’alapuyan?

Planning: The Great Chinook Jargon dictionary (1st note)

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In honour of the 15th anniversary of this website of mine today, let’s plan ahead!

Gibbs 1863 on dialects in Chinuk Wawa

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In my opinion, the best of the English-speaker-oriented Chinook Jargon guides in the frontier era may well have been George Gibbs’s “A Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or Trade Language of Oregon“.

I think we can add pípa-sàmən to the “general lower Columbia” (Central Dialect) lexicon

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My 2023 post about “Bridge River paper salmon” is about the Northern Dialect.