Respected elder Dr Louis Miranda tells you what Northern Chinook Jargon is like (Part 3: tloosh)
More from the Youtube video “Louis Miranda: Squamish elder teaches Chinook Jargon“.
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Nika halo politics
A fair motto!
SW WA pioneer Sidney S. Ford must have kept notes
In the sterile conceptual ghetto of the “Young Folks” page in a midcentury USA newspaper, I found something precious.
Brace up, boys!
Just below some jokey comments about cayuses (ponies, a Jargon word that became universally known in Pacific Northwest English), we have this…
Kamloops Wawa humor: chamberpots (2 of 2)
Sometimes cultural contact is funny.
Self-contradictions: Both logical possibilities exist for “mamook-tlaHowyum”
I couldn’t be more pleased to discover this sorta (semantically) minimal pair.
Plains Indian Sign Language is a pidgin: A real important point
I chanced upon a book review that I found to be very important.
Roy I Rochon Wilson’s Chinook Jargon (Cowlitz Tribe): an opportunity
My comment on Roy I. Rochon Wilson’s (1927-2025) Chinuk Wawa:
Mid-Columbia pidgin sub-dialect of Central dialect of Chinook Jargon: Part 2 ‘shikstewa’
I’m going to repeat an old observation here, just so it gets filed with the rest of the Yakama Chinuk Wawa stuff.
Alaxwa from Yakima
Spotlighting the intercultural nature of traditional gaming and of Chinuk Wawa: