1844: Lee and Frost, “Ten Years in Oregon” — where CW was and wasn’t spoken
Crazily enough, I’ve written here about a different, excellent book having the identical title (and quoting from this one)…
Crazily enough, I’ve written here about a different, excellent book having the identical title (and quoting from this one)…
This is a solid lesson on Chinuk Wawa history, and a great chance to learn more about both preachers’ & naughty songsters’ use of the language in BC.
Kluchmin iaka sit dawn, man iaka lei dawn (Image credit: Shutterstock) Here’s a selection from page 46 of the “Chinook Manual” (Kamloops: 1896)…
Before they were called “residential schools”, they were “Indian industrial schools”…
A number of claims have been advanced, doubtless based on the most authoritative information then available, about the literal meaning of the tribe-and-language name “Cowlitz”.
Jokes, fun quips, recreative wordplay: the classic Chinuk Wawa newspaper Kamloops Wawa had plenty of humour.
A letter from the Front, which the evidence suggests was written in Chinuk Pipa, from the Secwépemc soldier Auguste J. Jules, reproduced in French translation.
There’s a Chinuk Wawa word for ‘eye matter’ in the 2012 Grand Ronde Tribes dictionary, which is so easy to order & so useful, you’d better pause now and get one sent to… Continue reading →
Thanks to re-reading FW Howay’s classic article “Origin of the Chinook Jargon“, I had a thought 🙂
As usual, first southern Chinuk Wawa had a vaguer expression, then northern CW got a preciser one.