On his election to the Vice-Presidency of the Washington Pioneers Association in 1905, oldtimer and former Indian agent Edwin Eells, who was introduced as about to speak in “both his native tongues — English… Continue reading
There’s more to say about the Golden Potlatch!
Eyewitness to a maritime disaster of the United States Exploring Expedition, the wreck of the USS Peacock…
…claimed the colorful, eccentric, famous rich man after whom Jules Verne may or may not have modeled his protagonist Phileas Fogg!
Among the odder themes that recur when you’re a scholar of Chinook Jargon: cryptids.
The humor in this Chinuk Wawa quote is left untranslated, as usual in frontier times when the readers who mattered would understand it anyway!
George Gibbs’s influential 1863 dictionary of Chinuk Wawa supplies etymologies.
When “house porn” and Chinuk Wawa collide:
A page filled with sober legal notices and memorials is livened up with this late-frontier civic message:
Wow! File under #treaties, and more.
