The French Half-Breeds of the Northwest
I want to keep sharing what I’ve been learning of how Métis people, who were so crucial in bringing Chinuk Wawa to its classic and current form, spoke…
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Why there’s a Chehalis and a Scowlitz in BC
Why is there a “Chehalis” in both Washington & BC, and a “Cowlitz” in WA plus a “Scowlitz” in BC?
1833-35: Journal of Occurrences at Nisqually House, CW in transition, and a pidgin Interior Salish?
Not to be confused with the later “Nisqually Journals” of 1849-1852 (ed. by Victor J. Farrar, who helped Clarence Bagley with the stuff we’ll be looking at below) that I recently investigated, okay?
More WW1 letters in BC Jargon
We’re again indebted to Alex Code of PoCo Heritage, this time for an addition to our file on wartime letters in Chinook “code talk”…
Catching up to an etymology for t’ɬáp
Here’s another in my sporadic observations on ancient roots of Chinuk Wawa words.
‘Strychnine’ in Port Coquitlam
Another hat tip to Alex Code, Museum Manager of PoCo Heritage Museum & Archives in Port Coquitlam, BC…
A little older (folk) etymology, and synonyms, for kabréys?
The experts all agree that “cabresse” is a North American French borrowing from the Spanish-speaking cattle herders of the American Southwest, perhaps via Louisiana. I agree too, but…
More clues that religious CW is southern, creole CW
It’s a point that I’ll always keep making, and building up the proof.
1888: A sermon by Myron Eells (part 5)
Time to pick this interesting thread up again…
At last, the Cree etymology of Siskiyou
A much-debated Chinuk Wawa word, considering how rare it is, is the name of the Siskiyou Mountains in Oregon’s Jackson and Josephine Counties, and into northern California.