LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 12
Education and health care…
Education and health care…
A hot lead, or a cold “should”er?
Prohibition, 1855 racially-segregated style.
Now to Okanagan/Spokane country, from The Coast…
A law talking about laws.
Previously on this blog:
Giving the translators a break at last! This is the shortest article in the Treaty of Point No Point.
(Warning: A disturbing scene to get language data from.)
This Article of the Point No Point treaty is one that I find relatively hard to translate, with its fancy literary nested-clauses style and its profusion of modals like ‘may’, ‘shall’, and ‘will’… Continue reading →
Eyewitness testimonial specifying that Chinuk Wawa was already being spoken by Eastern Oregon Native people early in the settlement era.