I’m only going to focus on the Chinuk Wawa here, but I’m including the full 1906 article on BC Indigenous assertion of rights that remained unextinguished, since the colonial days of Sir James… Continue reading →

“Hybrid denizens”–! Why, that’s got Chinuk Wawa written all over it–!

In a pretty cryptic note on the editor’s gossip page, we’re treated to the suggested lyrics for a Jargon ditty.

In my PhD dissertation on Kamloops Chinuk Wawa, on page 134 I noted the rarity of words for ‘when?’.

One of the many corners of Chinuk Wawa grammar that’s been neglected…

Hemene Kawan or Old Wolf (the Settler writer Lucullus V. McWhorter, I infer) used Chinuk Wawa in a good newspaper obituary that he wrote of a Yakama Nation chief.

Definitely offensive now, and definitely useful data.

Chinuk Wawa used in yet another advertisement:

Symbolic logic was never my fortissimo 🙂

A post-frontier politician is anxious over his assignment to read a written Chinuk Wawa speech in public.