Blue ruin in Chinuk Wawa
Another Chinuk Wawa song! A new word! And shoddy anthropology! It’s easy to gin up a short article today, with material like this footnote from Hubert Howe Bancroft: The missionaries, the women of… Continue reading
Another Chinuk Wawa song! A new word! And shoddy anthropology! It’s easy to gin up a short article today, with material like this footnote from Hubert Howe Bancroft: The missionaries, the women of… Continue reading →
(Here is Bostonais part 1.) Yesterday I showed you my idea that Chinuk Wawa boston “American; white person” originates, not straightforwardly in English, but instead in Canadian (Métis) French bostonais. I don’t take as extreme a… Continue reading →
(Part 1.) How old is the famous “Boston men” versus “King George men” distinction in Chinuk Wawa? Countless history books refer to the verbal difference as a fundamental one on the early Pacific Northwest… Continue reading →
A postscript to my previous article on General Phil Sheridan, one of the Civil War’s Chinuk Wawa “code talkers”. A smoking gun, found in the book “A Catalogue of the Collection of Autographs… Continue reading →
This photo of “chicken pulled chicken” from Lucky’s Smokehouse in Sechelt, BC, is courtesy of TripAdvisor 🙂 (Part 1 here.) (Part 2 here.) (Part 3 here.) Some łaʔamin (Sliammon), some friendly chickens,… Continue reading →
Donʹt take them literally. Many of the concepts that they provide Jargon definitions for really werenʹt so conventionalized yet, a hundred years ago. So there could easily be more than one effective way… Continue reading →
We interrupt this program of light travelogue (it’ll continue in my next post) for some substance. Three years and change ago, I brought forth on this website a new nameplate, conceived in efficiency,… Continue reading →
(Part 1 here.) (Part 2 here.) Today: cannon shots are fired. Worthless white men think a Sechelt translation session is a card game, and want to join in. We learn that the first… Continue reading →
Herewith part 2 of a substantial and detailed travel story. (Part 1 here.) Eyes peeled! You’re going to learn some new Jargon vocabulary. Lili iaka patl smok kanawi kah ilihi kopa British It… Continue reading →
Here is a travel story that’s so detailed and awesome, I want to share a whole lot of it. Due to its length, I’ll do it in installments. So now, from Kamloops Wawa #146… Continue reading →