1875, “Tacoma Reservation”, WA: Letter from an Indian boy
Literacy was still new and rare among Native people of this area in 1875…
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Proof that “sit down” is pidginized in Northern Chinook Jargon
An extremely frequent word in the Northern Dialect of Chinook Jargon is from English “sit down”…
Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 8: I’m not dead yeeeeeeeeeeeeeet)
Our BC friend Dale McCreery has shared quite a few of his personal encounters with Chinuk Wawa in the last several years.
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.
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.