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More clues that religious CW is southern, creole CW

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It’s a point that I’ll always keep making, and building up the proof.

1888: A sermon by Myron Eells (part 5)

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Time to pick this interesting thread up again…

At last, the Cree etymology of Siskiyou

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A much-debated Chinuk Wawa word, considering how rare it is, is the name of the Siskiyou Mountains in Oregon’s Jackson and Josephine Counties, and into northern California.

“Mákook pi Sélim”

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A brief illustration of how Chinook Jargon words change meaning over time…

1858: A California goldrusher on the Fraser speaks CW thru a bottleneck

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Here’s one of the cheechakoes who did most of the work of making Chinuk Wawa a nearly universal BC language.

1912: A postcard in Chinuk Wawa (from a new archive)

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Rein “Snass” Stamm, have you seen this?

October 1817: Swanimilich speaks “English”

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The book is “Voyage autour du monde” (tome premier) by Camille De Roquefeuil (Paris: Béthune et Plon, 1843).

Inadvertent cussin’ in a hymn!

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A long hymn composed by none other than St. Thomas Aquinas gets a slightly alarming Chinook translation…

1930s: Chinook in Oregon loggers’ lingo

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Some say we should be bringing back certain 1930s Great Depression-era good ideas, like a Green New Deal…

1788: A scrap of Nootka Jargon?

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This scrap of early information might help us figure out the etymology of Chinuk Wawa’s háyásh ‘big’.