1855, WA Territory: More Indian Murders — Prospects of a General War
North-central Washington Territory in 1855 was a dangerous place to be a miner.
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Chinuk Wawa’s genderless “yaka” is due to Salish Indigenous influence
The more you research & think deeply into a subject, the more insights you may have.
Taking liwan ‘rib(s)’ earlier
We know a word for ‘rib(s)’ in Chinook Jargon; now we can say more about it.
1858, BC: “Frazer River Indians” ≠ “Chenook Indians”!
Very early in the Fraser, a.k.a. Fraser River gold rush, we have this evidence of 2 big points.
1915: One finds it funny to call them Savages
A bit of humor in objecting to Indigenous people being called bad names…
Nater 2020 on Mackenzie 1793, and me on the lack of a pidgin
Nater, Hank. 2020. Old records of three contiguous Pacific Northwest languages. Anthropological Linguistics 62(2):183-191.
1888: How Port Townsend site was chosen
This is actually a memory of 1851: Chinook Jargon was pivotal in the founding of the Settler community of Port Townsend, Washington Territory…
Chinook Jargon in the news: “The Girl with Big Feet” community screening, June 27th!
Here’s your first chance to see a new movie that includes dialog in Northern Chinook Jargon, Dakelh, Toisanese, and English.
‘Breechcloth’ in Lower Chehalis shows hidden Chinuk Wawa testicles
In the classic publication by photographer Edward S. Curtis, “The North American Indian” (1907/1930), Volume 9, page 188 documents the Lower Chehalis Salish word < s͡hĭ-pi-ís-kat > for ‘breech-cloth’.
1858, BC: “Ho! For the new mines” with American assumptions about Chinook
Back when Steilacoom (in Washington Territory) was still a major metropolis, it was a conduit for information on — and relating to — the new Fraser River gold rush in BC.