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Dave Robertson

@ChinookMan

Linguist: Chinook Jargon, pidgins, creoles, writing systems, Pacific NW languages & contact of languages and cultures

 Spokane, WA, USA
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Joined July 2009
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“Sick moon” chinookjargon.com/2023/05/17…

“Sick moon”

As important as mún (‘moon; month’) is for measuring time, terms for the moon’s phases aren’t necessarily easy to discover in Chinook Jargon.

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Father Felix Bucher of Grand Ronde reservation chinookjargon.com/2023/05/16…
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Learning from the Lane learners (Part 2) chinookjargon.com/2023/05/15…
Learning from the Lane learners (Part 2)

Learning from the Lane learners (Part 2)

Let’s learn some more from “Chinuk-Wawa: Leyn-Skul, Buk 2”, a wonderful magazine created by Lane Community College’s learners of Chinook Jargon.

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Things Chinuk Wawa doesn’t do (Part 2) chinookjargon.com/2023/05/14…
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What we did in our BC Chinuk Wawa session today! chinookjargon.com/2023/05/13…

What we did in our BC Chinuk Wawa session today!

This morning (8AM Pacific time = BC, WA, Oregon, California, Alaska time), we worked together to read through some Romans.

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1880: Grand Ronde Indians talk English & Jargon chinookjargon.com/2023/05/13…
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Blankenship, “The Early History of Thurston County” (Part 4) chinookjargon.com/2023/05/12…

Blankenship, “The Early History of Thurston County” (Part 4)

And now, more lovely Chinook stuff from a book about early Settlers’ lives on southern Puget Sound.

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Pidgin English “allsame” in Chinuk Wawa chinookjargon.com/2023/05/11…
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1905: John McLoughlin’s old definition of “cultus” is a mystery for us chinookjargon.com/2023/05/10…
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Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 10: ‘to make’) chinookjargon.com/2023/05/09…
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1893: Gill vs. Hale, debating pre-contact Chinuk Wawa chinookjargon.com/2023/05/08…
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1872: A Métis French word in Shoshoni chinookjargon.com/2023/05/07…
1872: A Métis French word in Shoshoni

1872: A Métis French word in Shoshoni

A word in the Shoshoni/Shoshone language (Uto-Aztecan family), spoken in western Utah, is almost correctly attributed to Chinuk Wawa.

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Suquamish traditions chinookjargon.com/2023/05/06…
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Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 8: Sechelt village, BC chinookjargon.com/2023/05/05…
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 8: Sechelt village, BC

Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 8: Sechelt village, BC

From a coastal town where Chinuk Pipa writing was popular…

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Alaskan Haida bark-gathering song w/Chinook Jargon chinookjargon.com/2023/05/04…

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 chinookjargon.com/2023/05/03…
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Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 10) chinookjargon.com/2023/05/02…
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Chinook Jargon in the news: Klahowya at Fort Nisqually chinookjargon.com/2023/05/01…
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“Covered Wagon Women” 1840-1849 chinookjargon.com/2023/04/30…

“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 Nebr…

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Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4H (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences) chinookjargon.com/2023/04/29…
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