WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/930078126

Making Wawa the genesis of Chinook jargon

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

author

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • ""A two-edged sword of reconciliation and betrayal, Chinook Jargon (aka Wawa) arose at the interface of "Indian" and "White" societies in the Pacific Northwest. Wawa's sources lie first in the language of the Chinookans who lived along the lower Columbia River, but also with the Nootkans of the outer coast of Vancouver Island. With the arrival of the fur trade, the French of the engagés or voyageurs provided additional vocabulary and a set of viable cultural practices, a key element of which was marital bonding with Indian and métisse women. These women and their children were the first fluent speakers of Wawa."
  • "After several decades of contact, ensuing epidemics brought demographic collapse to the Chinookans. Within another decade the region was radically transformed by the Oregon Trail. Wawa had acquired its present shape, but lost its homeland. It became a diaspora language in which many communities seek some trace of their past. A previously unpublished glossary of Wawa circa 1825 is included as an appendix to this volume."--Pub. desc."

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Glossaries, vocabularies, etc"
  • "History"
  • "Electronic books"

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "Making Wawa the genesis of Chinook jargon"
  • "Making Wawa : the genesis of Chinook jargon"

workExample