Sm’algyax’s Jargon traces
Much as we’ve seen in Alaskan Haida and Tlingit, the Tsimshian language of southeast Alaska carries a number of traces of its contact with Chinuk Wawa decades ago.
Monthly Archive: September, 2019
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From Grand Ronde to Cheney: Chinuk Wawa translation in Eastern WA, 1881
An unexpected early Chinook Jargon connection between Grand Ronde country and Spokane territory…
BC word discovery: “Siwash potatoes” = spring beauty (& other observations)
“An Early Settler Takes up Land” is a 1950 memoir by the late T.H. Butters…
Alaskan Haida’s BC / Aboriginal Jargon traces
Alaskan Haida retains quite a few indications of contact with Chinook Jargon, and they connect it directly with British Columbia.
The enduring influence of early-creolized Chinuk Wawa: a Cowlitz Tribe 1915 meeting
Wonderful evidence of the lasting influence of early-creolized Chinuk Wawa in southwest Washington state…
The Nez Perce Indians, picking hops north of 49
Remembering several years up to 1912, a BC Okanagan Settler reminisces about Nez Perce tribal people who would come up from the Colville Indian Reservation to pick hops in the Vernon area.
1891: Snohomish Pioneers talk in Chinook
Even at the dawn of the post-frontier era, Chinook Jargon was for old-timers on Puget Sound.
1897 California CPE: The Tongs Much Exercised
A gang conflict flares up into a fatal shooting in post-frontier Sacramento…
Circa 1853: Girls just want to have fun
Martha [Conner] Ellis Sapp, born circa 1844, came to the Pacific Northwest coast square in the middle of the frontier era, when you most definitely had to “do it yourself”.