Being a longtime partisan of Chinook Jargon, it pains me to confess that the Chinooking of today’s song made it much worse than the touching original!

A word that I first learned from the wonderful 2012 Grand Ronde Tribes dictionary of Chinuk Wawa is t’isay ‘the many-stick gambling game; the bundle of sticks used in playing the many-stick game’.

The Molala (or “Molalla”, “Molale”, “Pole Alley” etc.) language too, maybe.

A remembered secondhand recollection of the Cariboo gold rush, from a man who became a Settler, confirms the presence of BC Métis French by a different name.

A fine little master class in the traditional distinction between táyí & tílixam…

True to form, post-frontier Settler Chinook Jargon that fits into the genre of CJ invitations and challenges.

Sometimes we get multiple reports of a single historical occurrence.

Gold prospecting depended heavily on Indigenous permission, cooperation, and labour.

Many, many place names north of Louisiana, and from the Missouri River westward, are Métis whether you realize that they were originally French or not.

The Seattle Times recently ran an article on the history of Denny Hall at the University of Washington.