Our Indian Kin Folks in the “Eiletz”
Today’s old news clipping is short and to the point.
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Nesmith is credited with further Chinook feats
While shooting down the “invented by the HBC” myth, a Portland paper breathes more life into the cliché of Chinook Jargon as a “classical language”, right up there with Latin & Greek…
Grand Ronde Chinuk Wawa in the “Kalapuya Texts” (part 5: Social relations)
We’ve been looking at known Chinuk Wawa words from early Grand Ronde speakers of K’alapuya tribal affiliation…
Puget Sound frontier times: Interview with Jake Jones Jr., 1958
Snoqualmie Valley history told by a son of a pioneer…
Hidden discoveries: Extinct animals & creole-pidgin ethnozoology (Part 5)
Here’s one last example. It’s more circumstantial…
Nicola Auxime, Indian cowboy and “watchman”
Edited 10/11/2019 to add, thanks to Vinita, this mention of “Minnie Auxime, Kamloops” as the 27th of the first 50 pupils at Kamloops Industrial School, from page 149 of Kamloops Wawa #133 (October… Continue reading
Mawich Man’s ad
Ha! What did I say? Here’s another local advertiser who “just came back from the stik“…and he has a Chinuk Wawa name!
One f***-mouthed footpad!
Holy ****! Once again, West Coast CPE (Chinese Pidgin English) is all bound up with cussin’!
Grand Ronde Chinuk Wawa in the “Kalapuya Texts” (part 4: Calques)
As you read what I suggest are discoveries below, be aware that asterisks make clear when I’m guessing…
Lower Cowlitz Salish & a previously overlooked old Chinuk Wawa word for ‘school’?
You ever have that feeling, “Yeah, I already wrote about that…Oh wait, I didn’t!” ???