Re-evaluating Boas’s 1888 “Chinook Songs” (Part 13, the finale)
We finish up with two last Chinook Jargon songs, plus a Tlingit mystery bonus.
We finish up with two last Chinook Jargon songs, plus a Tlingit mystery bonus.
Today we’re privileged to be told another version of a Chinuk Wawa conversation between an Oregon (or California) Coast Indian and a Settler woman.
Here’s how to get ’em…
Each year, I try to do a post or two on a Halloween theme; I guess today we’re dealing with the “trick” part of “trick or treat!”
One of these days, and it won’t be long, I’m going to do a public reading drawing from the copious Northwest folk poetry we keep digging up here…
As we near the home stretch, we find some serious revisions necessary…
What I love about today’s short-but-sweet note is that it’s so demonstrative…
On this site, I’ve previously shown old news clippings that paint some clueless white person as a fool for talking Chinese Pidgin English, etc., to someone who turns out to be better educated… Continue reading →
Yes, Chinuk Wawa was spoken between Indigenous tribes, and not just for trading…
Today I’d like to introduce you to an unfairly overlooked book, “Among the People of British Columbia: Red, White, Yellow, and Brown” by Frances Elizabeth Herring (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903)…