My nerdy hobby: deciphering badly spelled Chinuk Wawa 😊

This is a great addition to our “Jargon invitations” file, but…where should the guests show up?

An Oregon newspaper must have had a political grudge against President Teddy Roosevelt, or at least his son.

Found at the Royal BC Museum as a freestanding holding, a set of “English Conversation and Interrogatories Answered in Chinook” sent me searching for its source.

A Settler cop’s letter expressing alarm about the state of law and order at Astoria & Chinook, Oregon Territory, is quoted in a newspaper…

I want to give credit to some elders.

We made an excellent lesson out of this once, in our BC Chinuk Wawa group (ask me about joining in)…

The only dictionary I’ve found of the north-central Washington state language, Nxaʔamxcín a.k.a. Moses-Columbia Salish, is a small one from the Colville Confederated Tribes.

Here’s another oldtimers’ reunion story where we can wonder if the guy was singing a song learned from Native people, or one of the Chinuk Wawa Christian hymns that the pioneers composed so… Continue reading →

Whenever you research something, collect the negative evidence too!