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Dead canoes: another “new old” word?
The Easter season (see yesterday’s post) may have been directing my thoughts towards death more than usual — leading to new discoveries like today’s.
Easter Sunday
How Easter was explained in Chinuk Wawa, 1902…
Ugh! You’re invited to the Redmen dance!
Add this to your collection of jovial Chinuk Wawa party invitations, sub-file Redmen.
Crusoe’s Island
Squarely in the frontier period (1857), a sharp-tongued Irish immigrant of high artistic and literary talent landed in the Pacific Northwest for a time as a government worker of various titles.
A sampler of frontier-era California pidgin Spanish/English/Chinuk Wawa
My readers are steadily treated to the insight (so I claim) that pidgin languages such as Chinook Jargon don’t exist in a vacuum.
Talking Chinook in South Africa with Father Walsh
Father Jolivet passes the time pleasantly on a visit to Father Walsh in South Africa of all places, thanks to Chinook!
Highlights from “St Nicholas League”: A Visit (1907)
A neat change of pace: one girl’s contribution of Chinuk Wawa to a kids magazine in the turn-of-the-century post-frontier era.
The “New Northwest” and “cloochmen’s” suffrage
A refreshing viewpoint involving Chinuk Wawa comes from a Pacific NW feminist periodical, way back in the frontier era…
Consumption Cured! BC Chinook Jargon’s visual appeal in peddling quackery to Settlers
Older generations of my family called it “T.B.”