Nicola 1904: Sad Accident (Part 2)
Gory details ensue in this second part of a tragic mini-series…
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Chinuk Wawa & “Tribes” of I.O.R.M.
The “Improved Order of Red Men” had a long association with Chinuk Wawa…
Freshwater háykwa?
Eileen Delehanty Pearkes’s “North of the Border” column in North Columbia Monthly of July 2019, titled “A Pearl of Great Price’, relays an amazing bit of traditional Salish knowledge.
1900: Tlingit Indians’ word for ‘Mounties’
It’s the rule more than an exception, that we discover some signficant new point whenever Chinuk Wawa turns up in an old newspaper story.
Nicola 1904: Sad Accident (Part 1)
A member of an important Nicola Lake family dies tragically…
In case you missed it: a fine magazine article
In “Columbia” magazine recently (Winter 2017-18 issue), Robert Foxcurran published a very fine article titled “Chinuk Wawa“.
I’m on vacation for a week
I’ll be back with an article a day after that! In the meantime, use the Search box on this site to discover and learn lots of great Chinuk Wawa things you may have… Continue reading
Nisqually, 1906: Recalling the first 4th of July on the Pacific coast
The early settlers of the Nisqually area of south Puget Sound gathered to commemorate an event that occurred even before they arrived.
The Dalles, 1904: Corpse talks to undertaker
We’ve seen a Chinuk Wawa séance with the spirit of an executed Cayuse chief, but here a physical corpse talks Jargon.
Susie wa wa klosh copa nika
I keep thinking I’ve already written about this Yakima celebrity, and it’s high time that I did.