The Cliff Safety ad, 1902
Lively colloquial use of a language is gold. Too many now-endangered or extinct languages lack clues to how they were once spontaneously spoken. I want to suggest that, of all the unexpected genres,… Continue reading
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“Foreign Indians” from China
“The Thlackamas Indians” is the headline on a pretty substantial unsigned article about the local Clackamas Chinookan tribe in the Oregon City (OR) Enterprise of Thursday, June 24, 1886 (page 1, all of columns 2… Continue reading
“Nose-in-the-Soup”, a Grand Round Chinuk Wawa name?
File under ‘Chinook Jargon names’. (There are lots.) I wasn’t previously aware of Chief Nose-in-the-Soup. His name looks like it could be: A mocking English nickname — I hope not. A representation of… Continue reading
Ad in Chinook Jargon, 1902
Pus msaika tiki kanawi ikta sil pi kot; If you folks want any kind of fabric or clothing, shush pi siapul, kopa man pi kopa kluchmin. shoes or hats,for men or women. Pus… Continue reading
Sechelt Salish Chinook Jargon
Salish lexically-suffixed (classifier) numeral influence on the 1902 Chinook Jargon of a Sechelt person? Never mind my big words. Just look: Pi iht man iht man klatwa mamuk pu mawich. (and one… Continue reading
Kamloops Sawmill
Another great ad in Chinook Jargon: <THE KAMLOOPS SAWMILL, <All kinds of Dressed and Rough Lumber, Sash, Singles, Etc.> T Kamlups so mil: The Kamloops Sawmill: Iawa msaika… Continue reading
“People” are Indigenous
Learn this: The word for ‘people’, tilixam in Chinuk Wawa (tilikom as spelled in Kamloops Wawa dialect), fundamentally means ‘Indigenous people’. I’ve pointed this out any number of times. Back in the day, you had to… Continue reading
Indian John Casino describes a Chinook aboriginal game, in Chinuk Wawa, 1905
In this old newspaper article about “Stone Implements Used by the Oregon Indians”, I discovered a previously unknown oral text in Chinuk Wawa. (By that, I mean specifically lower Columbia River-area Chinook Jargon.)… Continue reading
Kamloops Indian Church
A nice news piece, which may clarify history as locally understood from English-language records: [left column:] Iaka ukuk Kamlups chi styuil haws[.] This is Kamloops’s new church. Kopa Oktobir… Continue reading
Early Jargon loan in Hul’qumi’num
TFW U save a URL to a cool linguistic thing & they take down the page In this source I recently found an early Chinook Jargon loan into the Indigenous language Hul’qumi’num (Cowichan /… Continue reading