AF Chamberlain’s field notes of Chinuk Wawa from SE British Columbia (part 15) = last installment
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I need to go find this in Rome…!
A unique couple of items in “Chinook Writing” are spoken of in Kamloops Wawa #158 (November 1897), page 166:
Chinook Jargon does have gender (just not female/male, and only in verb phrases)
My current reading of B. Jagersma’s astonishingly fine grammar of the first known written human language, Sumerian, reminds me to dash off a technical point that I ought to be emphasizing, because everyone… Continue reading
1899, WA: Canoes article, with loan words and much more
A person we’ve previously found talking Northern Chinook Jargon makes a further show of expertise.
More humor in Chinuk Wawa: Southern interior BC — An “old bachelor” cooks for company
So, in early frontier days, these 3 ladies and an “old bachelor” meet up…
1855, WA Territory: More Indian Murders — Prospects of a General War
North-central Washington Territory in 1855 was a dangerous place to be a miner.
Chinuk Wawa’s genderless “yaka” is due to Salish Indigenous influence
The more you research & think deeply into a subject, the more insights you may have.
Taking liwan ‘rib(s)’ earlier
We know a word for ‘rib(s)’ in Chinook Jargon; now we can say more about it.
1858, BC: “Frazer River Indians” ≠ “Chenook Indians”!
Very early in the Fraser, a.k.a. Fraser River gold rush, we have this evidence of 2 big points.
1915: One finds it funny to call them Savages
A bit of humor in objecting to Indigenous people being called bad names…