‘HIDDEN’ :: ‘SHUT’, an Indigenous metaphor
Rats & mice have a reputation of thievery in the Pacific Northwest.
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Chinuk Wawa in the arts: “The Sun is Setting on the British Empire”
Here’s quite an interesting work of art that you may not have known of.
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“Less familiar words” in the Northern Dialect (Part 2D: Le Jeune 1924: more French (B))
The implication behind Father JMR Le Jeune’s presenting this list of words seems to be that they’re considered to be Chinook Jargon somewhere else than British Columbia…
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1857, Olympia, WA: Kultiss Skookum!
From the earliest days of journalism in muddy Washington Territory, folks were slinging Chinook Jargon at each other.
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$ “Pʰey” and “peyei” in British Columbia $
In Northern-dialect Chinook Jargon, you can find 2 nearly identical words meaning ‘pay (for)’…
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Culture lessons: Things Chinuk Wawa doesn’t do (Part 10: Synonyms)
There are very few synonyms in Chinook Jargon.
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1889, Wash. Terr.: On the naming of the new state
Among the many ideas for what to name Washington Territory when it became a state later in 1889 was a facetious suggestion of “Siwash”!
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More evidence of Métis French in BC? “Ember Days”
Readers of the old Chinook Jargon newspaper, “Kamloops Wawa” often saw the word likatrta in the calendar section.
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Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 18: ‘robin’ redbreast)
This common bird was a new discovery in 1892!
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1875, “Tacoma Reservation”, WA: Letter from an Indian boy
Literacy was still new and rare among Native people of this area in 1875…
