1865: Prehistoric Man Ain’t Here No More (sez Paul Kane)
What’s taken his place is a new Chinuk Wawa-speaking society, according to this writer.
Monthly Archive: June, 2020
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1914: City Puts on Its Gay Duds for Potlatch
It’s hard to find many Pride-related topics in old newspapers, so I’ve settled on this one.
1909: a “Spokeshoot liar” & very fluent Jargon
From a current ghost town that was then one of British Columbia’s biggest settlements (where Franz Boas did a lot of his work with Tsimshians & Haidas)…
1938: Rankin, “Frontier Days” of a cowboy
M. Wilson Rankin (1857-1938), originally from Pennsylvania, was a pioneer cowboy of Colorado & Wyoming…
1888: Indian stabbing affray — Englished Chinook
Here’s a late-frontier find that’s out of the ordinary: dialogue cited as occurring in Chinuk Wawa, but delivered only in translation.
1879: The Kittitas “Wau-Wau”
Before Kamloops, another Northwest town had a newspaper called the “Talk” in Chinook Jargon.
1912: Crazy co-inky-dink Indian schwa ad!
By a bizarre coincidence, this racist advertisement that (I’m guessing) puts Chinuk Wawa into the mouth of a wooden Indian also has the earliest “schwa” symbol I’ve ever seen!
1899: Taking a “clatawa kopa Spokane”, and other things Whites did to the Jargon
Why was a Ritzville lawyer reported as taking ‘a clatawa copa Spokane’?
1895: Wenatchee Joe’s mine
What a find!
1871: A Negro boot-black (& a missing pidgin)
There’s at least one pidgin missing from the flock of languages in this astonished mention of a Portland Black man.