lamatsin from Mississippi Valley French
lamatsin ‘medicine’ obviously comes to Chinuk Wawa from French la médecine…
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Chuck! Chuck! Keequilly!
Also for the “fictional Chinuk Wawa” file…
The seasick & the P.O.W.
It’s a twofer today!
“Piss plant”, a Canadianism for an introduced species
I amused my daughter by pointing out the absurdity of telling Google to “translate dandelion into French” 🙂
Black and blue, Kanaka too! An Indigenous metaphor
For years I labored under the distorted impression that Hawaiians employed by the Hudsons Bay Company in the Pacific Northwest had been known as “blue boys”…
Rock stop: BC Wawa
From southern interior British Columbia, good regional Chinuk Wawa:
“Kladawah” mystery solved
Thanks to Karla Elliott for finding an online copy of this book & sharing on the Facebook Chinook Jargon group!
Valuable words, Fort Nisqually, mid-1840s
This is some of the most carefully detailed phonetic documentation of Chinook Jargon in its earler days.
An obscure book we need to find…
Henry Derr Wiard Reynolds’s book “Kladawah” is said to exist in only one physical copy.
Tulalip, from My Heart
Here’s a post-frontier Native person from north of Seattle, telling about a stereotype of Indians that didn’t fit her…