A Jargon verb mash-up in Central Coast Salish
One useful verb in Hul’q’umin’um’ (sometimes called Cowichan) Salish of Vancouver Island strikes me as a borrowing from Chinuk Wawa…
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1896 CPE: Scheme to land Chinese
Another West Coast pidgin language?
How papa and mama, and one aunt, are creole Chinuk Wawa
New news: words from French (and maybe also English) for your relatives match Chinuk Wawa’s pattern of turning Indian “vocative” kin terms into common nouns.
LBDB: prose, not lyrics (Part 1)
Pioneer baby Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett’s Chinuk Wawa has long interested me…
“Kamloops Wawa” in The Stenographer magazine (Part 2)
Father Le Jeune of Kamloops Wawa heard about The Stenographer’s interest in his shorthand-written Chinook Jargon newspaper, and wrote a letter to the editor…
Arabella Clemens Fulton
Arabella Clemens Fulton (1844-1934) took the Oregon Trail relatively late, in 1864…
One Grand Ronde word, and implications for Jargon adverbs
A use of a neat Jargon word that hasn’t been pointed out before…
“Bringing Home the Wishing Rock”
Is there a Chinuk Wawa tie-in to this cool public sculpture in Spokane?
1890: Notes & Queries … and Salish?
I’m going to present an old article here, and then talk about one word in it…
1911: Cultus Chikamen doggerel
A short post-frontier poem called “Cultus Chikamen” [‘Worthless Money’] by W.R. Gordon expresses an old-timer’s nostalgia for seemingly more prosperous days.