1865: Settler superstitions about “Indian Superstitions” about earthquakes
This “our Indians” thing sounds real, real patronizing…
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1932: Stalo-sawash remembered
A casual comment makes an oldtimer’s interview plenty interesting to us…
1928: Menu in Chinook in BC, and “God Save the King”
Maybe you can help decipher this!
‘Alder’ as ‘paddle-wood’
I’ve previously written about origins of Chinook Jargon’s ísik-stík (‘paddle-wood’) as the name of a tree species…
Upper Chehalis Salish as the original Stick Indians?
From George Gibbs’s phenomenal 1877 ethnographic and historical tour de force, “Tribes of Western Washington and Northwest Oregon”…
1913: Turkey trot put to shame
I believe the reference here is to the dance craze, not to Thanksgiving-season charitable footraces.
April 23, 2022: Experience 1850s life at Fort Nisqually
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laklés vs. klís, and Métis
Another of those words that have been in Chinuk Wawa for so long that they have both French & English roots…
Steering through possible etymolgies of ʔaptsit ‘stern, rudder’
In my article “Etymologies or ‘Oops’,” I suggested that Chinook Jargon nouns starting in /up/ preserve a sort of Chinookan ‘Instrument’ prefix.
“Another Tomorrow”
In one of his more English-influenced spellings, Chinook Jargon expert George Gibbs reports (1863:26) a word “tomolla”.