LBDB: prose, not lyrics (Part 1)
Pioneer baby Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett’s Chinuk Wawa has long interested me…
Pioneer baby Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett’s Chinuk Wawa has long interested me…
Father Le Jeune of Kamloops Wawa heard about The Stenographer’s interest in his shorthand-written Chinook Jargon newspaper, and wrote a letter to the editor…
Arabella Clemens Fulton (1844-1934) took the Oregon Trail relatively late, in 1864…
A use of a neat Jargon word that hasn’t been pointed out before…
Is there a Chinuk Wawa tie-in to this cool public sculpture in Spokane?
I’m going to present an old article here, and then talk about one word in it…
A short post-frontier poem called “Cultus Chikamen” [‘Worthless Money’] by W.R. Gordon expresses an old-timer’s nostalgia for seemingly more prosperous days.
A photo of an apparent Chinuk Wawa speaker, tucked away in a multi-volume work on West Coast ornithology, is rare evidence of an uncommon, useful Jargon phrase…
There’s a fairly rare word of Chinook Jargon that’s pretty much known only from James G. Swan’s mid-1850s stay on Shoalwater Bay, Washington.
A Québécois literary magazine put a good chunk of page space into a look at the “Chinook paper”…