1893: Chinatown agitated
History in the making: the legality of the US’s Chinese Exclusion Act is being decided…
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1843: Belcher on “Chenooks”
Captain Sir Edward Belcher, a British naval commander, left us one of the less well-known memoirs of a late July to mid-September 1839 visit to the Fort Vancouver and Fort George (Astoria) area.
Songs of LBDB (Part 1)
“Tenas Liza Jane” is the only song in Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett’s 1924 dictionary that doesn’t also appear in her “Chinook-English Songs” book.
“małni”: the feature film & the old word
From the Tate Modern (London, UK) website, news dated January 8th of a feature film using Chinook Jargon:
Why x̣áwqał isn’t an adverb, & why that matters
x̣áwqał ‘unable to, can’t’ is not an adverb.
“Chapelure”? (Merci à MLT)
Thanks to my reader Marie-Lucie Tarpent for a comment that inspired this article.
Mox Boarding House?
Today’s post is a crowdsourced question for my readers…
LBDB: Prose, not lyrics (Part 6)
Grace before Meals…our last installment from her dictionary.
More about ma tante
A comment by a participant in our Saturday morning Jargon lesson brought this up…
Chinuk Wawa in a Stó:lō hymn book (Part 6)
Right up front, I want to praise the translators of this song for their punctuation…