Category Archive: Uncategorized

International trade

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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?

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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

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True story: There was a late-1800s vogue for jokey versions of the kids’ nursery rhyme, “Mary Had a Little Lamb“. 

Joe Kuhn’s picnic

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Another Chinuk Wawa document that we need to find…and a good light summer read!

Hops, Grand Ronde, lake berries, and humor

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Linguistic archaeology means thinking twice, no doubt.

Aboriginal rights, clearly expressed in a pidgin, 151 and 1/2 years ago

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Loud and clear.

Recommended: “Chinuk Wawa Phrase of the Week” videos

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I always try to respond to my readers’ requests…

The Yaquina Indian troubles: Mrs. Kistler’s statement, & linguistic archaeology

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(Edited 10/27/2019 to mention my followup to this article.) A hoax to provoke a racist war?

“A Tale of the Shining Tide” from Shoalwater Bay

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Warning: fictional Chinuk Wawa, set on Shoalwater Bay but starring Plains Indians?

Oregon as it was: By an old pioneer (big Métis-Grand Ronde connection)

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I loved finding this article where an oldtimer tells what Métis life was like in the early settlement era — leading into the early reservation era — in Grand Ronde’s neighborhood.