Alaskan Haida bark-gathering song w/Chinook Jargon
A traditional Haida song for gathering the bark from young cedar trees uses Chinuk Wawa.
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1889, BC: The boss potlach
It’s not difficult to find news articles about Native “potlatching” in the second half of the 1800s.
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 10)
Here’s the tenth pair of page images from Father Honoré-Timothée Lempfrit’s copy off of the presumable Modeste Demers original Chinuk Wawa vocabulary made at Fort Vancouver circa 1838-1839.
Chinook Jargon in the news: Klahowya at Fort Nisqually
Very sorry I missed announcing this in advance — it looks great!
“Covered Wagon Women” 1840-1849
I’m glad I picked up volumes 1 & 2 of “Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails”, edited & compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes (Lincoln, NB: U. of Nebraska Press).
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4H (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences)
It pleases me to present these 4 thematic sentences as a sort of poem…
Chinook Jargon in the news: “From skookum to potlatch”
Not new news — a good 2018 article, which interviewed me.
Does the ABLE:FAST metaphor extend to CAN’T?
At least two eminent linguists say yes 😎
“Less familiar words” in the Northern Dialect (Part 1A: Shaw 1909)
One of the smartest things the old-school Chinook Jargon dictionary makers sometimes did…
What Chinook do you remember? ‘My name is Black Bear’
What Chinook Jargon do you remember? Send me your memories to post here!