While working with legendary photographer Edward S. Curtis, the important early historian of the Pacific Northwest, Edmond S. Meany, had a chance encounter in South Dakota with a very old woman who spoke… Continue reading
A social organization of Oregon-born kids of the pioneers — what better place to go looking for good (creole?) speakers of Chinuk Wawa!
From the Barkerville beat: a sample of another pidgin language…
A 1909 biography of John Sheepshanks, Bishop of Norwich, who spent time in early British Columbia. “A Bishop in the Rough“
The American West of the Settler society has a long and steady history of arguing & separatism…
Kind of a sad flipside to my recent post on “B.C. Black History (etc.)“.
A short, single-paragraph item in a late-1870s newspaper uses Chinuk Wawa to comment on national economic policy.
Today I’m just reproducing the closing paragraph of a published invitation (otherwise in English) from the Pacific Northwest’s legendary mountaineering club, The Mazamas. (They still exist.)
A genre of Chinuk Wawa literacy that we’re building quite the file of: the invitation (and the RSVP)…
Chinuk Wawa was important for non-Whites’ testimony in frontier courts of law, as we so often find…
