Sheepshanks! “A Bishop in the Rough”
A 1909 biography of John Sheepshanks, Bishop of Norwich, who spent time in early British Columbia. “A Bishop in the Rough“
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Siskiyou etymology dispute, 1910
The American West of the Settler society has a long and steady history of arguing & separatism…
Kirkland Social News
Kind of a sad flipside to my recent post on “B.C. Black History (etc.)“.
Delate $$$
A short, single-paragraph item in a late-1870s newspaper uses Chinuk Wawa to comment on national economic policy.
The Mazamas
Today I’m just reproducing the closing paragraph of a published invitation (otherwise in English) from the Pacific Northwest’s legendary mountaineering club, The Mazamas. (They still exist.)
Who Will Be Here
A genre of Chinuk Wawa literacy that we’re building quite the file of: the invitation (and the RSVP)…
Hand in mouth?
Chinuk Wawa was important for non-Whites’ testimony in frontier courts of law, as we so often find…
Sahalie Club organized
How fitting that a club called < Sahalie > ‘high; elevated’ had an elaborate hierarchy — in Chinuk Wawa.
La Chinuka Interlingvo per Esperanto
Can my readers help out?
Political dirty tricks (& a word discovery) in Chinuk Wawa
Election meddling, to skew the minority vote turnout? Old news…