1869: Wisconsin tauntin’
A wedding announcement is a poor place to make fun of the groom, no?
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1895: Col. B.F. Shaw in town, reminiscing [1840s, 1850s]
This man was a main Chinuk Wawa interpreter for the “Stevens Treaties” in Washington Territory, and he knew the language well, but…
1912: Address delivered at…Grand Ronde! (Part 2 of 5: PNW folklore about Chinuk Wawa)
Moving right along now…
1898: Chinuk Wawa ad in Hawaii — a contest!
Strange but true, we find various connections between Hawai’i and Chinuk Wawa!
1891: A previously unknown Chinook song, and a naughty allusion
Today’s tally: one newly discovered Chinuk Wawa song (but canceled out by its being lost to us), plus possibly more evidence that the naughty “Seattle Illahee” was PNW-famous!
Function of CW’s “silent” PREPosition, and a possible source of it
I’ve long pondered, why do fluent Chinuk Wawa speakers often leave out the preposition, kʰapa/kopa?
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 11: Louis-Napoléon St Onge
Click the following link to browse all installments in this series!
Ø₁, Ø₂, Ø₃: You’ve got to pick one or the other, although neither of them ought to be what they claim
It is on Housing Project Hill…
1911: Astoria centennial program
Hat tip to Juli in the Discord Chinuk Wawa group, for finding this fun item!
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 14)
Complete with at least one exciting new discovery, here’s the 14th pair of pages in our overlooked document from circa 1849.