Ugh! So these 2 white women decide to write fiction about Indians…
This is just a short note about a literary use of Chinook Jargon.
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Chief Kettle, donated labor, and the “la-lode”
The predictions of Linguistic Archaeology are confirmed!
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ASSAULT: Full Moon gives evidence in Chinook
And here’s another example of Chinese immigrants probably speaking Chinuk Wawa with Indigenous people.
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[kl] = /q/?
Here, very briefly, is another reader crowdsourcing challenge.
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Tenino need not be ticklish…because it didn’t exist!
I’m trying to tease this out.
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Treaties, Chinook Jargon, and “The Advent of the Whites in Quileute Land”
Oral history: the things your elders tell you and you tell to the younger generations.
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“toque” in Mississippi Valley French, eh?
Also in the list of North American French-isms that became Chinook Jargon: “toque”.
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Chinook Jargon ‘dog’ < Chinookan 'nipples' < Lower Chehalis Salish
The received wisdom tells us that our Chinuk Wawa for ‘dog’ — kʰámuksh — is an old Lower Chinookan word.
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Montana CPE
For the latest installment in our occasional series on Chinese Pidgin English of the West Coast, let’s go to the mining boomtown of Helena, in Montana Territory.
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Lexical Acculturation in Siletz Dee-ni (& Chinuk Wawa)
Linguist Jen Johnson wrote an interesting paper looking at “Lexical Acculturation in Siletz Dee-ni” (Swarthmore College, 2012).
