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California CPE: Heap big Odd Fellow
Pidgins as street languages in the late frontier period…
My Dear St. Nicholas:–
So wonderful: a local girl tells about Chinuk Pipa shorthand in a national kids’ magazine.
Dregs of Chinook Jargon in a Nicola Valley court case
An awkwardly prosecuted case of illegal liquor sales to Indigenous women (a classic colonialist prohibition) near Kamloops carries plenty of implied information about the post-frontier Nicola Valley language situation…
Rourke Groceries ad
Short and sweet…
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.