1887, SW WA: The potlatch of Deaf George, Lower Chehalis
Here’s a fella who was well remembered a half-century later in the community.
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1871, OR: An “abergwine” and his friend
Well within the frontier era, an Oregon newspaper was using various synonyms for ‘Indigenous person’.
Cortes Island Museum website re: “chuck”
Cortes Island Museum & Archives is a fine website for some research, if you’re not lucky enough to go there!
2016: Fiola, Dakelh, Métis/Canadian French
I have the feeling this will be an ongoing series of corrections…
1861?: Early BC Chinook Jargon
The book is “The History of the Northern Interior of British Columbia (formerly New Caledonia) [1660 to 1880]” by A[drien] G[abriel] Morice (London, UK: John Lane, 1909).
1895, BC: Chinook writing and reading…during confession?
If we can take this at face value, the large role of Chinook Writing in this part of Indigenous people’s religious practices is news to me.
1912 [about 1851?], WA Territory: Murphy recounts Indians’ love of silver coins”
I think here we learn something about the origin of the still-common phrase, “shortchanging” someone!
1944: Dutilly, and maybe new discoveries from Kamloops
Dutilly, Arthème. 1944. An inexhaustible source of linguistic knowledge. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 87(5):403-406. (Papers on Archaeology, Ecology, Ethnology, History, Paleontology, Physics, and Physiology (May 5, 1944)).
Nice proof that Northern CJ “fol-dawn” doesn’t mean ‘fall down’!
Of course Northern-Dialect Chinook Jargon’s fol-dawn is from English ‘fall down’, but…
Poser on sizi
I just want to comment on a single Dakelh (Carrier) word in a single article by a friend of mine: