1893 (!) : Reminiscences of Nanaimo’s old days
Well, this article appears on what passed for the kids’ page, so the 1850s and 1860s would’ve seemed like long ago…
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There’s more than one way for a cat to be skinned: Multiple CW quasi-passives, plus metatypy?
Hayu masi to Beth for commenting in chinuk-wawa…
The Catholic Digest tells about Chinuk Wawa shorthand…if you have the resources to access it
This being a capitalistic world…
Found: the Quasi-Passive, also in 1st-person plural
I’ve pointed out many times that the closest thing Chinuk Wawa has to a “passive voice”, parallel to English “I really got cheated”, is to literally say “they did it”.
1907: Suggested carnival names
“Snuggestions” (!) for the name of a post-frontier Walla Walla carnival’s “main street” included several in Chinuk Wawa…
1902: The Tillicum Hiyu Wawa Club of Aberdeen
Another of the many social clubs in the post-frontier Pacific Northwest that took Chinuk Wawa names…
“Cheechoko’s Dream” song
A misspelled Jargon word is a clue to some missing songs…
1902: The Red Law and the White
Lavishly illustrated by a B.J. Rosenmeyer, today’s excerpt looks suspiciously made-up…
‘Pull out’ or ‘pole out’? CW as a tool in Salish research
While working on Thomas Paul’s “Sametl” story with our weekend Zoom group, I may have discovered something…
1869 [1852], Alaska/Yukon: The Kohklux map
A Lingít chief of Klukwan, Alaska drew the oldest known map of southwest Yukon Territory in 1869 — and Chinuk Wawa was involved.