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Is ‘naked’ in Upper Chehalis part-Chinuk Wawa?
Uncovering another stealth loan that streaked past previous researchers…
Grand Ronde Chinuk Wawa in the “Kalapuya Texts” (part 1)
I’m starting another mini-series, making the case that there’s much, much more Grand Ronde Chinuk Wawa in a classic collection of “Kalapuya Texts”.
Hidden discoveries: Extinct animals & creole-pidgin ethnozoology (Part 3)
Shifting to quite common species, we learn on page 221 of the mid-1850s railroad survey about the Franklin’s grouse…
“Skukum makmak” ad
From an extremely obscure little Chinuk Wawa newspaper…
Hidden discoveries: Extinct animals & creole-pidgin ethnozoology (Part 2)
I’ve started a mini-series on previously obscure animals and species names in the 1850s “Reports of Explorations…” for a railroad line across the Northwest.
Used boots ad
Did you know? Want ads were a thing, in the earliest days of Chinuk Wawa literacy…
Hidden discoveries: Extinct animals & creole-pidgin ethnozoology (Part 1)
There are precious nuggets of previously unknown Chinuk Wawa, reported on the spot in the 1850s, to be panned from the torrent of raw information in an old railroad survey.
Baptiste of Shhkaltkmah writes to the editor
A young Secwepemc man writes with news of a tragedy…
Where does the compound síl-háws (tent) come from?
Beyond etymology is linguistic archaeology™.