‘Cranberry’ is Salish
Lee & Frost’s “Clatsop” brief vocabulary list in “Ten Years in Oregon” (1844) is indeed Chinookan, but it’s Lower Chinookan as spoken with the White missionaries.
Lee & Frost’s “Clatsop” brief vocabulary list in “Ten Years in Oregon” (1844) is indeed Chinookan, but it’s Lower Chinookan as spoken with the White missionaries.
Perfetly typical for a bustling big city after frontier times, this Seattle newspaper needed to explain Chinuk Wawa words to its readers.
A prolific genre was enriched by a talented painter.
Here’s a rare type of song in Chinuk Wawa…
Irishman Michael Cowley was a very early pioneer in the area of Spokane in far eastern Washington.
I’ve snipped several fascinating sections of a Fraser River gold rusher’s personal narrative.
Another connection between the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and Chinuk Wawa.
One of the words for an ‘elder’ in the Umatilla Sahaptin-language dictionary surprised me.
The infamous bawdy Pacific Northwest folk song…
If we list all the words that might be from French in the Secwepemctsín language, we see historical Métis influence.