1894, southern BC: Klonas lazy, klonas halo!
Local readers understood the Chinook tag line on this letter to the editor in the early post-frontier era…
Local readers understood the Chinook tag line on this letter to the editor in the early post-frontier era…
I had thought the Northern-Dialect Chinook Jargon word ashnu ‘to kneel’ was an anomaly…
For educational purposes only, I’d like to share an exciting find of a Chinook Jargon story from Cortes Island, British Columbia.
Umatilla Sahaptin is a language of tribal people who met non-Native newcomers fairly early…
A couple of the Chinuk Pipa letters that we’ve found, written by Indigenous people of British Columbia, are datelined “Camp 16” in 1893. Ever heard of the place?
One Pacific Northwest language that I’ve had a harder time finding reference materials on is Northern Paiute.
Nah, we’re talking about dysgraphia!
At Mount Saint Michaels in Hillyard (Spokane), Washington, this week:
Suzanne Simard’s book “Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest” (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2021) is a very good read if you’re interested in forest ecology and such.
Look what else emerged from Prof. Franz Boas’s brief 1892 article on “The Chinook Jargon“…