Milling in Early Days
One interesting feature of this really interesting feature is the way it shows how frontier-era Chinuk Wawa speakers were highly aware of the quality of their own Jargon…
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El Comancho — nationally syndicated?!
Walter Shelley “El Comancho” Phillips was quite the self-promoter…
Sin as a Jargon word (kinda the opposite of ‘sin’)
Not a word most of us would use every day, but it reflects a certain reality…
B.C. Black History, Indigenous race relations, plus Bostons & Chinese
Mifflin Wistar Gibbs (1823-1915) was a remarkable person.
Indian vs. Chinaman
The “[Denis] Kearney logic” that the writer accuses today’s Indigenous speaker of is a late-1800’s “build the wall” paranoia about China…expressed in Chinook Jargon!
Medicine Man’s Success
Women play a key role in two episodes recounted by an overeducated post-frontier central Washington farmer, who quotes Moses-Columbia Salish people’s Chinuk Wawa words.
Roses are…poo?!
I meant to write this in time for Valentine’s Day, sorry, honeypot!
Disaster to Coffee Johnson
Nooksack news.
Pioneers to Meet Soon
Toward the end of a post-frontier news article announcing a Washington pioneers’ gathering, a sense of urgency is imparted by switching into untranslated Chinuk Wawa.
“T’see Alki”: a lost Downey-Bartlett song?
Found: a Chinuk Wawa song we didn’t know of before.