Jeremiah Curtin & Chinuk Wawa
A really great read, that you’ve never heard of is the “Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin“.
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lápʰusmu, from Mississippi Valley French
Another in my series on documenting French sources of Chinuk Wawa words…
More evidence of Chinuk Wawa as early as Lewis & Clark?
Sometimes you revisit something you’ve read many times, and see it in a fresh way.
Port Townsend wears the bell
“Chenook”, they used to say, rhyming it with “ye duke”.
Buelville headscratcher
Crowdsource call, going out to my readers!
How wildcats damage a country
Not much Jargon here, but enough to show a lingering impact on British Columbia English…
A “Gloria” Rosetta stone
One way to teach people Chinuk Wawa is to set them up with a reading passage, providing a running translation…
Advent, in Chinuk Wawa
How about a small, timely piece of Jargon reading practice?
Puyallups, treaty negotiations, and Chinuk Wawa
I’m learning good things from “Forked Tongues at Sequalitchew: A Critical Indigenist Anthropology of Place in Nisqually Territory” by Karen Marie Capuder (PhD dissertation, University of Washington, 2013).
kinikinik from Mississippi Valley French
Lots of us here in the Pacific Northwest know the word “kinnikinnick”.