(Edited to place more emphasis on James G. Swan…) Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864), preceding almost all of the published Chinuk Wawa documentation you know of, made one hell of a long footnote in his… Continue reading
Not too far into the post-frontier period, Chinuk Wawa was already a curiosity just outside Grand Ronde…
Today’s philosophical question: if doggerel poetry is untitled except for a headline, is it a display of untitlement?
The latest installment in our ongoing coverage of Chinuk Wawa in the justice systems of the Pacific Northwest…
Editorial blends with reportage on south Puget Sound, and everyone knows how to take the untranslated Chinuk Wawa.
More Indigenous cultural metaphors preserved in Chinuk Wawa’s ‘river’?
From time to time I share bits of other “contact languages” besides Chinook Jargon, to help illustrate that these are typically used in “street” situations.
We hear more from George W. Kennedy today…
Chinuk Wawa was the original Ebonics, evidently.
[There is a sequel to this article, too.] Regarding Louis Labonte Jr.’s Chinuk Wawa word spelled eoptaths and meaning ‘knife, knives’, I have an idea I’d like to run past my readers and see whether… Continue reading
