Is “lo’lo ikta” Jargon?
This one might strengthen Franz Boas’s observations about Shoalwater-Clatsop Lower Chinookan…
This one might strengthen Franz Boas’s observations about Shoalwater-Clatsop Lower Chinookan…
Up in British Columbia’s Chinuk Wawa-speaking territory, a peculiar version of the word for ‘slave’ took hold…
BC Chinook Jargon seems to use two alternative ways of expressing “amen“. The distribution is suggestive of historical developments, I feel:
I’ve told before about the tendency for any and all pidgin languages spoken on the West Coast of North America to get used in tandem — even blending together.
Spellings matter.
“High tyee“, like “high muckymuck“, reflects a mixed English-Chinook Wawa pedigree, but is its own critter.
Most of the best news coverage of British Columbia’s early gold rushes is to be found in…California.
“Growing Up Indian: An Emic Perspective” by Coquille Tribe elder George Bundy Wasson, Jr. is a PhD dissertation that he wrote at the University of Oregon, 2001. Wasson’s unconventional “insider view” dissertation has… Continue reading →
I’d love to know what this Chinuk Wawa song was…
Hey, lots of folks in the frontier West had colorful handles…