[Link to Part 1.] We can be grateful — Alexander Francis Chamberlain, one of the very first anthropological-linguistics students of Professor Franz Boas, was an early adopter of his teacher’s efforts to create… Continue reading
Settlers never tired of marveling at Native people who spoke good English.
I appreciate that a dance instructor should be named Foote!
NOTE: There is no “Part 3” in this series, due to a numbering error.
A joke explained…
A new discovery about southern vs. northern Chinuk Wawa dialect differences!
This one is a very small joke, just a play on words that I find to be a very nice use of fluent Chinuk Wawa.
The Oregon state convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, campaigners for the prohibition of alcohol, ended in a fun way.
A charming multifunctional loan from the kind of English that was spoken around Native people in 1890s British Columbia is “too much”…it leads us to much insight into Grand Ronde’s Jargon, too.
All the way over in New Jersey, we find Chinuk Wawa showing up in a current news item.
