Earliest female Chinuk Wawa speech? Pre-Grand Ronde
We may have found the earliest quotation of Chinuk Wawa speech by a female!
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Cayuses, scouts, friends: more from Meacham
Alfred B. Meacham (1826-1882) was chairman of the Modoc Peace Commission who tried to help stop the Modoc Indian War in southern Oregon and northern California.
Everything west of the Rockies is the Coast
A later-frontier eyewitness explains how Chinuk Wawa was seen by Settlers.
Lexical correspondences between Chinook and Kalapuya
Leo J. Frachtenberg published a study on three of the Grand Ronde reservation’s traditional tribal languages, investigating whether they might be related to each other way back in time.
Worship in the ancient form at Grand Ronde
John Minto IV (1822-1915), English-born Oregon immigrant of 1844 who went on to an illustrious political career, claimed only a rusty grasp of “the Chinook wa-wa” — and that’s why he’s a reliable… Continue reading
“The Coming of the Chinook”
From the eponymous “Wazzu” yearbook.
Poor Lo’s misplaced confidence
“Classic Chinook” being one of settler society’s stock jokes, equating the Jargon with the respect that the broader culture accorded to ancient languages like Latin and Greek…
Alsea ‘knife’, ‘metal’, and missing links
Research on other Pacific Northwest languages quite often yields Chinuk Wawa treasure.
Stó:lō is a Chinuk Wawa name
The name Stó:lō for the lower Fraser River Salish people of British Columbia is quite possibly a Chinook Jargon word.
Are Chinuk Wawa’s prepositions due to Salish & not Chinookan????
Chinuk Wawa has prepositions — why?