Why kʰapa, and why at Grand Ronde?
Throughout the known history of Chinuk Wawa, folks have written the main preposition as something like < kopa >.
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1853-56: Two brothers’ diaries (Part 1 of 2)
Patterson Fletcher Luark (1814-1901), formerly of Illinois, spoke Chinook Jargon, you betcha.
1792: Captain Vancouver’s journals — evidence against a pre-Contact trade language
Nootka Sound, in Nuuchahnulth Wakashan traditional territory on Vancouver Island’s west coast, was the centre of a late-1700s trade in sea-otter furs.
Another CW burial term rediscovered
I’ve written several articles on this site showing that there were widely known phrases in Chinuk Wawa relating to burial of the dead, not all of which have been documented in CW dictionaries.
“Kaltash Wawa”: the Chinook Peipa comes back to life
Courtesy of the remarkably creative mind of Alex Code, we have Kaltash Wawa…
Important: 1792 Chehalis, Chinook, and Shoalwater evidence *against* Chinuk Wawa
Today’s post began as a parenthetical note, but is important enough to be its own article.
‘Whole wheat’ in CW … a Métis-ism?
Is there some easily searchable full-text archive of historical French-Canadian newspapers that I don’t know about?
Capot and/or capote?
The source of the basic CW word kʰapú ‘(over)coat, jacket’ has been much discussed.
1916: Chinook interpreter needed
Headlined “Didn’t Understand Oath”, today’s old news clipping adds to our abundant proof that Chinuk Wawa got used a whole lot in Pacific Northwest courts.
Drawing a different, silent moral from “A Stingy Girl is Taken Away by Mountain People”
I’ve recently come back to studying a certain tale by the Grand Ronde elder, Victoria Howard…