Support for ‘100’ coming from Chinookan ‘tree’
Apparently my suggestion that Chinuk Wawa’s tak’umunaq ‘one hundred’ is etymologically Chinookan for ‘(fir) tree’ isn’t outlandish.
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1910, Nanimo, BC: Indian Shaker Church service
[Oops, I misspelled Nanaimo, sorry!] We can thank reader Alex Code for this neat item, too…
Čáw Pawá Láakni: They Are Not Forgotten
A phenomenal cultural document that recently joined my research library is the book “Čáw Pawá Láakni: They Are Not Forgotten / Sahaptian Place Names Atlas of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla” by… Continue reading
1857, WA: Earliest “Stick Indians”
The earliest “Stick Indians”?
What Taa-laa-wa Dee-ni’ a.k.a. Tolowa (CA/OR coast Athabaskan) has to do with Chinook Jargon
We are living in fortunate times. Lots of Indigenous-language resources are generously being shared online.
BC, about 1900: “Doctor Tom’s” song: Now with musical notation!
I previously shared the lyrics and the background to “Doctor Tom’s” medicine-man (“doctoring”) song.
Discoveries in Cayuse ‘n’ cussin’ ‘n’ Chinookin’
Bear with me, and send the kids to another room.
CA: French Camp (San Joaquin County) is the farthest south we’d look for Chinook Jargon
I’ve seen no indications of Chinuk Wawa influence in any of the Indigenous languages of California that are south of Shasta and Modoc-Klamath…
TN Hibben’s home office in Victoria
The headquarters of TN Hibben, well known to us in the Chinook Jargon world for having issued…