1856: The Causes of the Present Indian Difficulties in Oregon and Washington Territories (Métis, treaties, etc.)
The excellent observer, James G. Swan, syndicated his descriptions of life in Washington Territory nationwide.
The excellent observer, James G. Swan, syndicated his descriptions of life in Washington Territory nationwide.
Calling all Salish scholars; what do you think?
I think it’s typical of my home region, far eastern Washington, that folks weren’t quite as good at Chinook Jargon as those elsewhere.
Here’s a nice, serendipitous find that confirms some conclusions we’d already reached using the available evidence.
I try to scour the world for every scholarly mention of Chinook Jargon…
This note is just to follow up on my previous piece, “1923: A re-discovered Kamloops Chinuk Wawa publication“.
There’s plenty more of value to examine in Prof. Franz Boas’s quite brief 1892 article on “The Chinook Jargon“…
Keeping score, I count 2 jokes within this late telling of our venerable PNW joke.
The graduation ceremony of an Oregon medical school probably didn’t really contain this faux-dignified humorous address in “the classic Chinook“…
I’ll keep this as minimal as I can, in the spirit of the topic of “silent pronouns”.