On this site, I’ve previously shown old news clippings that paint some clueless white person as a fool for talking Chinese Pidgin English, etc., to someone who turns out to be better educated… Continue reading
Yes, Chinuk Wawa was spoken between Indigenous tribes, and not just for trading…
Today I’d like to introduce you to an unfairly overlooked book, “Among the People of British Columbia: Red, White, Yellow, and Brown” by Frances Elizabeth Herring (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903)…
“A Visit to Lawoilamsk”, by J.H. Grant (British Columbia Magazine VII(5), May 1911, pages 339-343), bestows a rare gift on us…
We’re in the home stretch, folks! One of today’s songs needs a drastic re-interpretation…
We learn a little something, excerpting from a glowing obituary of then-recently deceased Isaiah Cooper Matheny, Willamette Valley (Oregon) pioneer of the 1843 Applegate wagon train…
Folksy doggerel!
Here is another Indigenous language of the northern coastal regions that preserves quite a bit of good Chinuk Wawa…
There’s some very good translation by Franz Boas here…
Coy headlines + lots of Chinuk Wawa words…
