#Chinuk

[rebeccathenaturalist]

For those following the Chinook Indian Nation's work toward regaining federal recognition, this is an important endorsement. I posted a while back about a petition for the state of Washington to give the now-closed Naselle Youth Camp to the Chinook. The NYC is on unceded Chinook land, and specifically the portion of land the Chinook asked to retain almost two centuries ago as part of an unfulfilled treaty with the U.S. government.

A state task force formed to determine the fate of the NYC has officially recommended the NYC be given to the Chinook Indian Nation. Not only would this put the facility into the hands of people who will make excellent use of it, but the Chinook have also stated their intention to restore the on-site wastewater treatment facility and salmon hatchery. The former would additionally be a boon to the entirety of Pacific County, which currently ships its wastewater all the way to Centralia, WA, over 100 miles away from southern portions of the county.

If the NYC is indeed given to the Chinook, this will be an important statement that can be used to pressure the U.S. government to restore their federal recognition. To find out ways you can help the Chinook in this effort, please visit ChinookJustice.org.

[chowtrolls]

i would to know more about this chinuk you tagged recently >:)

CHINUK!!!

(design and art by @/indig0trolls!!)

Chi is a meteorologist! She's a bubbly, sometimes snarky, but adventurous bronzeblood. She was diagnosed with an early onset osteoarthritis at a young age, which allowed her to enroll in an experimental treatment. During her trials, she connected with an offcaste tealblood named Aprici, who she lovingly calls Apricot. They became incredibly close!

The experimental treatment didn't completely work, and resulted in both of them experiencing a loss of limbs to combat the aggressive spontaneous deterioration. After that fact, Chi decided that she wasn't going to spend the rest of her life holed up waiting for something to happen.

She dragged Aprici into attending classes with her. She's still studying- very close to completing! She met a disgraced heiress named Ritual while studying, and the two hit it off fantastically. Chi introduced Ritz to meteorology and the study of storms. As a retired Fleet Pilot, Ritz was desperately searching for something to give her the same sense of thrill. Ritz brought in Tacoma, a skilled mechanic, and the little quad of friends became researchers.

Tacoma's engineering skills helped to create a vehicle prepared to face any kind of cosmic storm. Ritual is daring and hardy, prepared to run headfirst into a tornado if need be. Aprici is a whizz with numbers- he's in charge of taking the raw data and spitting it into readable means. And Chi finds the best storms!

Chinuk is INCREDIBLE at reading weather and finding a good storm. She hasn't been wrong yet! A large part of it is being very in tune with her body, being able to tell how the changes in barometric pressure might affect her. She's also good at reading the storms themselves, watching the clouds swirl, seeing how the wind is blowing, where tornados, hurricanes, tsunamis, might end up.

She's like a grapefruit- sweet and tart and tangy. Fun to be around, but packs a bit of a bite. Not afraid to say whats on her mind. After all- Ritual and Tacoma adore her. Two big ex-fleet fuchsias scowling at you from behind Chi, you're unlikely to say much.

[revretch]

There's this bus stop with a wall that has a poem written on it in multiple languages (not visible are the English and Spanish lines). It seems like the idea is to communicate that all these languages are beautiful... but in practice, it's just the Arabic calligraphy flexing so hard it absolutely blasts the other three and their plain Roman characters clear into the stratosphere

(For those wondering, the language before the Arabic is Chinuk!)

[redtail-lol]

Actually so happy to have found my tribe's language. At least one of them. This is my first step to reconnecting: learning the language. I found an app dedicated to teaching it I'm gonna try it out.

[seaslimes]

Conversations with another, smaller, weaker self.

[specialkindofidiot]

Thought this should be on Tumblr

[littlewritingrabbit]

Nah cheechako :-D

Naika nanitch maika kopa Chinook Wawa tag pe naika kumtux halo tillikum klaska wawa okook lalang kahkwa klap maika blog mammook naika tumtum kloshe.

Mashiem pe kloshe sun!

Tlahowya!!

Naika hayu youtl pus naika blog mamook maika tumtum tloosh! Qata maika chako-kumtuks Chinuk Wawa? Naika nanich olman dictionaries, pi alta naika tlatawa kopa video-call pus wawa kanumokst tilikum, but naika kwolan kopa Grand Ronde yaka mamook skool kopa Chinuk Wawa ^-^

Tloosh sun kopa maika wuht!

[bigsoggyballs]

Tried translating the first few pages of Golden Kamuy into Chinuk Wawa; pages with illustrated gore below the cut

I’m a complete beginner; this was only possible with copious amounts of looking up words and grammar in the dictionary. I have no doubt I have made numerous errors. If anyone more experienced with the language wants to correct me, please please do so!!

[wawa-pi-wawa-pi-wawa]

pulakʰli kʰapa kʰapa bəqəlšuɬ-iliʔi pi dxʷdəwʔabš-iliʔi (qʰənchi alta nsayka munk-nim "seattle" kʰapa bastən-wawa)

Seattle nights, 2017

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[play-now-my-lord]

LRB: I was reading the Chinuk Wawa dictionary years ago as part of a personal project and distinctly remember a word in there which was used to gloss the (outmoded, anthropological) term "berdache", something I'd best get across in english orthography from memory as "pi-klooxman" (the actual orthography is different but i'm bad at IPA) - nearest etymological english equivalent something like the modern "femme" or maybe the 2010s "demigirl" - anyway, this was a term which expressed gender-variance, seemed to specifically imply transfemme-adjacent gender-variance, and which the primary sources swore up and down was not an existing concept in local ndn society, while also explicitly naming a distant relative called "Nancy Jack" or "Jack Nancy" as an example. Cognitive dissonance babey

[wawa-pi-wawa-pi-wawa]

dret pʰil chəlis

[heliopauseentertainments]

К сожалению, я весь день работаю, но редко в эти дни у меня есть вожмостность говорить (или писать) по-русски, потому что не знаю других русскоговорящих.

Русский язык не мой родной и не говорю на нём свободно, но много лет я его изучал, когда учился стать языковедом.

Я и говорю мало и по-немецки, и по-словенски, и чуть-чуть на иврите, и чуть-чуть на идише, и чуть-чуть на… … как его называется—на английском зовут "Chinuk Wawa" или "Chinook Jargon."

С Днём Языков!

[ervona]

fave fake posts:

Reylo pancakes

Giger threesome inspiration

Massey-Massey

least fave fake posts:

that one ao3 screenshot that tries to obfuscate two different languages because no one can tell the difference between chinuk wawa / zulu and I have to check the notes... literally come on now

anything else that tries to be about meeting an annoying fan... you will never be reylo pancakes

[seaslimes]

LMAO, pardon the double-posting about the subject, but I made a post about customizing a Chinuk Wawa keyboard & Tumblr ate it because of all the links. You can check it out here: [AKA, in the replies of this post, I'll add a link!]

[krowspiracyanon]

Deleted the misinformation post about the fics in Chinuk Wawa on AO3. Apparently most of them were in a different language and only like 4 were in Chinuk Wawa.

Sorry, this is Tungle so I should be checking every claim suspiciously.