“páya” words in Lower Chehalis Salish
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1874: Jargon nickname for Oregon businessman
Not obviously translated for the readers was this Chinook Jargon pun in frontier-era Oregon.
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 13: “Indian group at Douglas Lake”
More from Spahomin, also known as Douglas Lake, BC, in northern Syilx (“Okanagan”) country.
1891, Atna territory, Alaska: In an Indian village
The Copper River people, a.k.a. Atna Athabaskans (Dene), were just about the farthest northwesterly folks to have used Chinuk Wawa.
Another Indigenous language that preserves old Chinuk Wawa’s name for “Saturday”
There’s this one interesting word in Lower Chehalis Salish…
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 16)
The 16th pair of pages in this precious document again brings us plenty of stuff worth knowing about Chinook Jargon!
1916 (WW1) cartoon: Yes, Jeff is very fond of Bob Service’s poems
A nationally syndicated cartoon strip making a reference to World War One backs up my recent point that Robert Service’s poetry of the Klondike was hugely popular…
1872: “Letter written by an Indian Chief” at Grand Ronde
Without preamble, a local newspaper published what it called a “Letter Written by an Indian Chief”, in recognizably local Chinuk Wawa. You talkin’ about me?: T.H.B. Odeneal (image credit: Levi Odeneal page) The… Continue reading
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4N (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences: How [the heck]?)
Let’s get into the wherefores and how-to’s!
Lower Chehalis ‘fast; hurry’ ~~ Chinuk Wawa ‘fast; hurry’
One word in Lower Chehalis Salish (an ancestor language of Chinuk Wawa) has 2 uses…