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“The Chucks” in 20th century S Central BC

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Suzanne Simard’s book “Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest” (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2021) is a very good read if you’re interested in forest ecology and such.

Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 23: to vomit)

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Look what else emerged from Prof. Franz Boas’s brief 1892 article on “The Chinook Jargon“…

A correction to H. Rubenstein on Father Le Jeune’s “diary entries”

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I don’t care to engage with the obviously political goal of its author, but his scholarship is shoddy and needs correcting…

1861, California: Cheap pantaloons + West Coast CPE (Chinese Pidgin English)

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The other big West Coast pidgin language that everyone was familiar with…

Old postcards (Part 4: Koosah Falls)

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Here’s a postcard of a scenic Oregon waterfall with a Chinook Jargon name…

Pentland “French loanwords in Cree”

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David Pentland wrote a good article on “French Loanwords in Cree” that points out several things we can recognize in Chinook Jargon.

Discovered at Kamloops Archives: a word list, and Chinuk Pipa words penciled in

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Found by our friend Alex Code at the Kamloops (BC) Archives — naika wawa mirsi (thanks to) Alex for sharing!

Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 14: a pattern)

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Here’s another contribution from our friend, the linguist Dr. Dale McCreery.

Grâce à toi, Duployé…!

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Reflecting the thinking of those who promoted French-based shorthand writing, including the Chinuk Pipa, back in the day…

Previously uncredited / unknown Chinook writings by LN St Onge (and others)

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Here’s another subject that a motivated student / grad student / scholar can turn into an excellent little research project and/or publication…