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Associated with long-ago football seasons at Washington State College, which is now “Wazzu” (WSU) in Pullman, I find fan cheers and songs that look, well, kind of Chinooky. That association is reinforced by… Continue reading
Associated with long-ago football seasons at Washington State College, which is now “Wazzu” (WSU) in Pullman, I find fan cheers and songs that look, well, kind of Chinooky. That association is reinforced by… Continue reading →
Ivan Munk. 1973. “Spokane country: The way it was / A Spokane heritage publication.” Spokane, WA: Spokane Heritage Publishing Co. This is a wonderfully researched, thought-out and drawn comic-book format treatment of major… Continue reading →
A newly invented writing system for Chinook Jargon: It’d been a while since I’d talked much Chinuk Wawa to my kids. Like, since the second-oldest was a toddler. This evening, when she and… Continue reading →
When I came upon the phrase “Chinook ham” in my studies, I had to pause. Not to refresh my memory; I’d never heard this term previously. Have you? But I wondered: was this… Continue reading →
While doing other chores, my ears pricked up this evening hearing CBC Radio’s ‘As It Happens’ program. The host was saying ‘We contacted Sylvia Minthorn’ about something or other–and I thought, well now,… Continue reading →
CHINOOK archives – January 1999, week 3 Table of contents: A bit more on chance similarities/ was Re: Salishan-Wakashan A couple of suggestions about pre-CJ “Nootka Jargon” A couple of suggestions about pre-CJ… Continue reading →
At the Alaska Native Language Center online archives site, you can listen as “Andy Brown sings a Chinook Jargon drinking song.” In the 1975 Ahtna Noun Dictionary by Mildred Buck and James Kari, Andy… Continue reading →
Found in The Atlin [BC] Claim, Saturday, April 21, 1900, page 4, column 3. A classic 19th-century newspaper doggerel poem, which assumes the reader understands ‘Chinook’, titled Te Deums: TE DEUMS. “The Prince of… Continue reading →
CHINOOK archives – January 1999, week 2 Table of contents: “SET CHINOOK NOMAIL” “The Vancouver Chinook” note (fwd) File: “LISTSERV REFCARD” (fwd) (More on) SET CHINOOK NOMAIL, SET SALISHAN NOMAIL Addendum: Kitsilano/Kahtsahlano… Continue reading →
When I noticed that web searches for “piltonson” were landing at this blog, I had to investigate. Did someone give me an insulting Chinuk Wawa nickname? 🙂 …”Pilton” means “crazy”… Then I realized… Continue reading →