University of California curriculum
Another one just for fun, because I’m an academic. Thanks to my dad for this beauty: a mock “University of California curriculum” that was making the rounds in the 1960s. Enjoy! –David Douglas… Continue reading
CHINOOK JARGON AS A BC ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE: The following is an argument I wrote up as a grad student, a few years back. It’s keenly relevant now, eh?
Another one just for fun, because I’m an academic. Thanks to my dad for this beauty: a mock “University of California curriculum” that was making the rounds in the 1960s. Enjoy! –David Douglas… Continue reading →
(*Sorry for the photo glitch that some of you are seeing!) From Chinook Jargon country, but not directly on-topic, comes this bit of fun. My dad’s mom’s dad ran Robertson’s Cafe in Benge,… Continue reading →
Reader Sharon Seal has thoughtfully sent along some interesting Chinook Jargon material that she’s found in her resarch. The following relates to the diary of Major Granville Owen Haller. I especially appreciate this… 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 →