Chinuk Wawa places I visited last week
On my family’s vacation to the central Oregon coast this last week, we visited a number of Chinuk Wawa-named places:
Tillicum Beach
Tyee Campground
Ona Beach
Ona Restaurant
Sahhali Drive
Moolack Beach
I know I’m leaving some out! There are lots of them in that part of the world. I was too busy being fascinated with tidepools and zoning out on long beach hikes 🙂
Do you have additions for my list?
I have quite a few additions to your list…do you need photographs with them??
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Names alone are fine 🙂 Hayu masi!
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I have quite a few place names that are Chinuk Wawa–do you need a photograph with the name printed out to qualify?
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PS I have missed your posts while you have been vacationing…..Glad you’re back.
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And thanks for your kind words, Laura. I never stopped thinking about Chinuk Wawa while I was vacationing, as you can tell 🙂
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have you ever looked at the big Totem Pole parades in Seattle around 1910 – 13? I think they used a lot of chinook in this kind of Seattle boosterism push. I always wanted to write about it because they were earlier than the ones they had in Vancouver in the 1920s.
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Hi Marcia, yes indeed, in what may have been one of the earliest uses of the language in boosterism / cementing a local non-Native identity, the Tilikums of Elttaes and the Golden Potlatch flamboyantly threw around quite a bit of Chinook Jargon. I’ve written about them a bit here. There’s also the Potlatch Club Ball, the Oregon Pioneer Association’s “mighty white of you” use of Jargon at its reunions, etc., to consider putting in the mix.
Obviously I take a more linguist-y angle on things — Someone really should do the research and writing about this stuff from a historian’s perspective!
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and btw as i complete my phd tomorrow or the next morrow of the last chapter, I am once again grateful for the two chiefs went to europe translation you did. It is much easier to get the Wawa these days (as in not paying for it), so I enjoyed both your translations and the images etc. in the actual wawa. v. good.
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I hope some of the stuff I’ve shared has been of use. I’d enjoy reading your dissertation when you create the final version!
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There is a Nesika Beach down near Gold Beach. And up the Rogue River from Gold Beach is the very tiny town of Illahee
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Right! Illahe — and when I googled it, I chuckled at the “bigness” of a similar place name, Sahallie Illahee Park (Heaven Park) in West Linn. With its nature trail and giant slide, it looks awesome, but it only gets 3 stars on Yelp, hmm 🙂
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