1893: An Ahtanum pom-pom (púmpum)
Something you often used to see in Washington state newspapers was reportage about “Chinook dances” .
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Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 5: ‘to dream’)
Today’s word from Franz Boas’s 1892 article “The Chinook Jargon” isn’t some then-new Lower Chehalis Salish-sourced discovery.
Komtakst/komtaks and klaksta/klaska in BC Chinuk Wawa
In my 2012 dissertation, I took note of a pronunciation peculiarity of Kamloops-area Chinuk Wawa…
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 4)
Discoveries! I love it when we find “new” words in Chinuk Wawa.
1883: Sarah Winnemucca has opinions about Chinook Jargon in education
A Native author and activist had her own views about educating kids in Chinuk Wawa that might surprise you…
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4C (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences)
Third in our mini-series of fluent southern sentences from US government treaty translator Geo. Gibbs:
yútɬiɬ-lapúsh ‘cocksure’, a Salish metaphor
One of the uses of Chinuk Wawa’s yútɬiɬ ‘proud, arrogant; glad, happy’ is in a unique phrase from the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation community.
Howay [Haswell, Boit, Hoskins] “Voyages of the Columbia” (Part 3 of 5)
Venturing farther into the published collection of reports on the journeys of the ship that the Columbia River is named for…
Ej, uxnem!
This one’s just begging to be translated into Chinuk Wawa:
What Chinook do you remember? “kapn nos”
Dale McCreery, a Michif who lives in Bella Coola, mentioned on the Facebook “Chinook Jargon” group something that he’s heard in that area: