1895: Real-world Northern Chinook Jargon (An apology for “turning Métis”?)
Nah, we’re talking about dysgraphia!
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I visited the graves of PNW linguistic pioneers in Spokane
At Mount Saint Michaels in Hillyard (Spokane), Washington, this week:
“The Chucks” in 20th century S Central BC
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)
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”
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)
The other big West Coast pidgin language that everyone was familiar with…
Old postcards (Part 4: Koosah Falls)
Here’s a postcard of a scenic Oregon waterfall with a Chinook Jargon name…
Pentland “French loanwords in Cree”
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
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)
Here’s another contribution from our friend, the linguist Dr. Dale McCreery.