Saibashi, sasquatch, Toisan, BC
For several years, I’ve been wanting to write more about saibashi…
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Sluiskin’s warning! Kloshe nanich!
(Notice how I’m indulging in exclamations this week?!)
Wah-Kee-Nah and her people, including James Clark Strong
“Wah-Kee-Nah and Her People“ by James Clark Strong New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1893 In places, a solidly interesting piece of Northwest Americana. New Yorker J.C. Strong lived in the PNW starting in… Continue reading
Gentrifying a Siwash neighborhood in Olympia: The history of a word in local English
The Vancouver (Washington Territory) Independent of April 8, 1876, at the end of its “Olympia Notes” column, reproduces news from the Olympia Echo. The piece includes the following sentence of note: Little shanties which have been… Continue reading
Mencken on Chinook Jargon’s influence
H.L. Mencken‘s famous 1945 book on “The American Language” (Supplement 1) gets into the subject of Chinook Jargon’s influence on our English, on pages 310-311. I hear a wisely skeptical voice in his… Continue reading
Blazing the way, by Emily Denny
Blazing the Way: Or, true stories, songs and sketches of Puget Sound and other pioneers. By Emily Inez Denny. Seattle: Rainier Printing Company, Inc. 1909. I enjoyed noticing on page 33 of this… Continue reading
Lines to a klootchman
Here’s the masculine original “Lines to a Klootchman” to which the “answer song” poem was written. It will help you make sense of that poem, where some real queer-looking Chinook Jargon happens. In… Continue reading
Lines by a klootchman
From the Steilacoom (Washington Territory) Puget Sound Herald, Friday, October 14, 1859, front page I reckon. This one’s what was in early 1960s pop music called an “answer song” 🙂 (If you don’t… Continue reading
Mary Moses’s statement
Mary Moses’s Statement. Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon, 1988. (No author or editor credited.) Another invaluable publication by Glen Adams about Inland Northwest history. Man, the Ye Galleon catalog must be hundreds of items… Continue reading
Opening the remaining half of the Colville Reservation to settlement, 1906
The context of the book I’m blogging about today is that in 1906 there was a plan to throw open the remaining, southern, half of the Colville Indian Reservation in north-central Washington state… Continue reading