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Maxime George and a couple of pidgins

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Maxime George (1891-?) was a Dakelh chief in the Cariboo region of British Columbia.

Our Indian Kin Folks in the “Eiletz”

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Today’s old news clipping is short and to the point.

Nesmith is credited with further Chinook feats

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While shooting down the “invented by the HBC” myth, a Portland paper breathes more life into the cliché of Chinook Jargon as a “classical language”, right up there with Latin & Greek…

Grand Ronde Chinuk Wawa in the “Kalapuya Texts” (part 5: Social relations)

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We’ve been looking at known Chinuk Wawa words from early Grand Ronde speakers of K’alapuya tribal affiliation…

Puget Sound frontier times: Interview with Jake Jones Jr., 1958

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Snoqualmie Valley history told by a son of a pioneer…

Hidden discoveries: Extinct animals & creole-pidgin ethnozoology (Part 5)

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Here’s one last example. It’s more circumstantial…

Nicola Auxime, Indian cowboy and “watchman”

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Edited 10/11/2019 to add, thanks to Vinita, this mention of “Minnie Auxime, Kamloops” as the 27th of the first 50 pupils at Kamloops Industrial School, from page 149 of Kamloops Wawa #133 (October… Continue reading

Mawich Man’s ad

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Ha! What did I say? Here’s another local advertiser who “just came back from the stik“…and he has a Chinuk Wawa name!

One f***-mouthed footpad!

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Holy ****! Once again, West Coast CPE (Chinese Pidgin English) is all bound up with cussin’!

Grand Ronde Chinuk Wawa in the “Kalapuya Texts” (part 4: Calques)

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As you read what I suggest are discoveries below, be aware that asterisks make clear when I’m guessing…