Category Archive: Uncategorized

Interesting argument — I know Salish as well as any White man, so no big deal that the 1855 treaty was made via Chinuk Wawa

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Fifty years after the fact, the controversies over how fair the Isaac Stevens treaties were boiled to the surface in the Settler community. 

Catherine Isaac’s letter from Langley, BC

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An Indigenous woman writes with news and a special request…

hayáaas, kʰə́əəltəs, íiinatay, & Webster on a bridge: Of new languages there are many

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This article from 1906 makes some solid points about Chinook Jargon’s status as (a fashionable idea then) an international language….

Lillooet…A Woman Tenderfoot in Bear Country

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From the same area and time as “The Story of a Stump“, where hunters found a Chinuk Pipa message in the woods beyond Lillooet…

1911: Celebrate for Chief Seattle

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The beginning of Chief Seattle Days in Suquamish naturally involved a Chinuk Wawa speech…

Shoalwater Bay stories, Part 2

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Today: Acelan’s Story. It’s quite possibly a true newly discovered wrinkle in an old story. 

Spokane Romance in New Novel: A pair of discoveries!

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A Spokane newspaper article indirectly leads us to two new discoveries about Chinuk Wawa!

Took big city by storm

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Just a morsel of Chinook Jargon here…

Indian rites over body of old chief

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A lot of confusion in a small paragraph about the Puyallup tribe…

Shoalwater Bay stories, Part 1

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Here is a traditional, and I expect true, story about the origin of southwest Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula and Shoalwater Bay.