1835: Kanakas, too, called Americans “Boston”
I’ve previously shown you that Americans were called Boston by Indigenous people of the Northwest Coast, and by French-Canadians.
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Humor: The last words of a Nicola Déné speaker?
When one of the last speakers of endangered Nicola Athabaskan thought it was the end of his life, he spoke Chinuk Wawa!
AF Chamberlain’s field notes of Chinuk Wawa from SE British Columbia (Part 8: Bread, rock, mend…)
Howdy from Kamloops, BC, where I’m doing a bit of Chinook stuff today!
A word for ‘batteries’ in Jargon: “Faraday machine”!
Sometimes Chinook Jargon can be downright steampunk!
Chinook Jargon in the news: So 2 chiefs and a priest go to Europe in 1904…
I posted about the Kamloops residential school yesterday — now here’s something about a well-remembered figure connected with that.
Main entrance, Kamloops residential school
Said to be a 1930’s photo by George Meeres, this shot of the Kamloops residential school entrance surprised me.
Lower Chehalis’s ‘stands up the sail tool tool’, and Chinuk Wawa influence
A word of Lower Chehalis Salish from elder Emma Luscier in 1941 ultimately shows traces of Chinuk Wawa.
1881: From Alaska — Why a Washington [DC] Clerk Went to a Far-Off Country
When Alaska was still a newly acquired territory of the USA (since 1867), most Americans to be found there were located in its southeast panhandle.
1912, Siletz, OR: Native minstrel show in Jargon?!
Most unexpectedly, we find Native people in Oregon doing a minstrel show in Chinuk Wawa…
More humor in Chinuk Wawa: How the priest wound up selling beer
This one’s also in a non-Chinook Jargon language, but it’s from the Chinook newspaper, and it’s quite a funny true experience!