Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4D (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences)
#4 in our mini-series on paid Chinook Jargon expert George Gibbs’s illustrations of how to talk this language:
#4 in our mini-series on paid Chinook Jargon expert George Gibbs’s illustrations of how to talk this language:
Mystifying to find Chinuk Wawa in a Los Angeles newspaper!
The 5th pair of pages in this overlooked gem!
Here’s a cool set of related words in SW Washington (“Tsamosan”) Salish:
I’m still asking, can you find evidence of Chinook Jargon in our tally of the described communications in these old journals?
I include a clipping of the entire article in case you want to read it…
nayka wáwa drét háyú mási kʰapa David Gene Lewis, PhD.
I was looking at clams and such…
From Coldwater, BC, the village where Chinuk pipa literacy first got popular among Native people…
Something you often used to see in Washington state newspapers was reportage about “Chinook dances” .