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Sky Hopinka exhibit

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An artist to keep your eyes on…

1893-1897: Sweet “BetseyAnnSpikes” :) (Part 3 of 7) (a Grand Ronde connection?)

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To read previous installments of Betseyannspikes’s correspondence, click here.

Immediate Future tense in early creolized CW

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This post is intended as a short, sweet suggestion.

Canoe “together”, an ancient Indigenous metaphor?

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Could kəním ‘canoe’ be etymologically related to kʰánumákwst ‘together’?

Hi-yu Jesus and halo muck-a-muck

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A post-frontier Settler writer characterizes the prevailing mood in Indian country…

CW numerals and language universals

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One of the many ways Chinuk Wawa can be proved to be just like any other human language —

‘Fathom’ from ‘rope’ — an Indigenous metaphor

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The early CW measure word íɬana ‘fathom; yard’ has been shown in the superb Grand Ronde dictionary to come from Chinookan…

Sixes, Oregon: a triple play, Dene to CW to English

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Well yes, I do get some of my linguistic information from the press releases of brewing companies…

1841: Previously unknown early CW place names…and Native humour??

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A Chinuk Wawa place name that I hadn’t known of 1in the lower Columbia River area…

CW in the news: Canadian slang terms

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For a bit of fun, check out a recent article about province-specific slang words in contemporary Canada…