Southwest Oregon names & Chinuk Wawa, 1826-1856
Chinuk Wawa and people’s names…
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One argument for Chinuk Wawa as an official language
Again, from Oregon, wouldn’t you know!
From an Old Pioneer, with 6 degrees of separation
From a pioneer of 1853 who was evidently a lifelong friend of famous “Poet of the Sierras” and fellow Chinooker Joaquin Miller*: a letter home.
Woolgathering
In the small portion of this book that I’ve accessed so far, there’s a nice Chinuk Wawa anecdote.
Story of a stumper, nearly?
Are you one of the few that have taught themselves to read Chinuk pipa? (The “Chinook writing” shorthand.)
How are hayu- and hayas- alike?
How are hayu- (from háyú ‘much, many’) and hayas(h)- (from háyás(h) ‘big’) alike?
Our Jargon, and frontier humor
From the real olden days when frontier California, for US settlers’ purposes, was northern California, and an integral part of Cascadia.
International trade
If you care to cut through a couple of stereotypes, this clipping actually documents one of the intercultural uses of Chinuk Wawa that you hear less about…
Chinuk Wawa math?
One, two, three counting-related topics that have been hard puzzles in Chinuk Wawa:
“Mary Had a Little Lamb”, with a side of linguistic archaeology
True story: There was a late-1800s vogue for jokey versions of the kids’ nursery rhyme, “Mary Had a Little Lamb“.