Nika tiki muck-a-muck
Frederick Dally (1838-1914) was a British photographer in frontier British Columbia (1862-1870) who had an eye for unique souvenirs.
Monthly Archive: March, 2019
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Wake Cumtux Coulee, lol
A Chinuk Wawa place name that’s a pun!
Vancouver – False Creek: The true, inside story of the Kitsilano Reserve deal
The ever-popular “Chinook Jargon + shady politics” trope…
How he was sold
As direct linguistic evidence, this is not so hot, but it’s quite a revealing variation on a popular frontier-era joke about sociolinguistic expectations.
Pioneer Nig Saul
At points offensive, but well worth quoting in full, is this nationally circulated rare biographical remembrance of a very early African-American settler and Jargon speaker on the Lower Columbia.
Johny English
An untranslated post-frontier new article brings a bit of attempted humor in Chinuk Wawa.
H.M. Ball letter, 1871
You’ve seen Henry Maynard Ball recently on this website, as a judge absentmindedly misspeaking in Jargon to an Indigenous lady. Now you can read an entire letter he wrote to another Canadian woman… Continue reading
Oregon CPE: Struck It in Hops (and linguistic “silos”)
In this website we’ve looked at reports of how Indigenous people and Chinese immigrants crossed paths…
Ducks yaka chaco!
Humor! A post-frontier reminiscence of frontier days on the north coast of British Columbia…