Earlyish recognition of Chinook-Chehalis Jargon, plus…
One of the few published mentions of the pidgin Haida of the early Northwest Coast maritime fur trade…
One of the few published mentions of the pidgin Haida of the early Northwest Coast maritime fur trade…
(Image credit: “Career of a Scotch Boy“) Active contributor LeAnn Riding got me thinking about BC Métis people, when she posted on our old CHINOOK listserv (remember listservs?) — “A while ago I… Continue reading →
In a 2000 discussion on our old CHINOOK listserv, founder of modern Chinuk Wawa studies, Dr. Henry Zenk, shared a historical quotation from the Grand Ronde, Oregon, area:
Add this to your Jargon dictionaries.
Recognizable in today’s clipping is some normal BC Chinook Jargon.
I was using M.A.R. Barker’s “Klamath Dictionary” (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1963) for some research — resulting in one article already on this site — when a really obvious loan word… Continue reading →
As much as Chinook invitations were a Pacific Northwest institution…
The 2012 Grand Ronde dictionary of Chinuk Wawa is our source for the word múwatʰwas ‘Modocs’.
Some linguistic work I was doing recently brought my attention back to the Lower Chehalis Salish word támtamaʔ ‘clothing; belongings; what you own’.
This 15-per-team sport was clearly Rugby Union…