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Sahalie Club organized

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How fitting that a club called < Sahalie > ‘high; elevated’ had an elaborate hierarchy — in Chinuk Wawa.

La Chinuka Interlingvo per Esperanto

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Can my readers help out?

Political dirty tricks (& a word discovery) in Chinuk Wawa

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Election meddling, to skew the minority vote turnout? Old news…

Milling in Early Days

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One interesting feature of this really interesting feature is the way it shows how frontier-era Chinuk Wawa speakers were highly aware of the quality of their own Jargon…

El Comancho — nationally syndicated?!

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Walter Shelley “El Comancho” Phillips was quite the self-promoter…

Sin as a Jargon word (kinda the opposite of ‘sin’)

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Not a word most of us would use every day, but it reflects a certain reality…

B.C. Black History, Indigenous race relations, plus Bostons & Chinese

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Mifflin Wistar Gibbs (1823-1915) was a remarkable person.

Indian vs. Chinaman

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The “[Denis] Kearney logic” that the writer accuses today’s Indigenous speaker of is a late-1800’s “build the wall” paranoia about China…expressed in Chinook Jargon!

Medicine Man’s Success

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Women play a key role in two episodes recounted by an overeducated post-frontier central Washington farmer, who quotes Moses-Columbia Salish people’s Chinuk Wawa words.

Roses are…poo?!

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I meant to write this in time for Valentine’s Day, sorry, honeypot!