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LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 13

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  Short and sweet: no more slavery.

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And I’m determined to get the Jargon!

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That feeling when you get hooked on this language is portrayed in a video clip: (I hope this video embeds & shows up all right!)https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/embed/fe09ff12-e8d2-4fbc-941e-3ab444a48b67?autoplay=false

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LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 12

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Education and health care…

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“Should” we see Salish influence in Chinuk Wawa commands?

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A hot lead, or a cold “should”er?

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LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 11

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Prohibition, 1855 racially-segregated style.

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Whiskey Joe

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Now to Okanagan/Spokane country, from The Coast…

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LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 10

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A law talking about laws. 

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A Chinook “Wawa Wawa”

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Previously on this blog:

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LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 9

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Giving the translators a break at last! This is the shortest article in the Treaty of Point No Point.

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Portland’s First Ferry — The Massacre of ’56

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(Warning: A disturbing scene to get language data from.)