1913: “The British Columbia Orphans’ Friend”, and Salish and Nuučaan’uɬ folks
The “Historical Number” (issue) of a post-frontier Catholic charity’s periodical preserves interesting scraps of Chinuk Wawa…
Monthly Archive: January, 2021
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1866: Hiyou blankets and multilingual Settlers
We continue to find untranslated pidgin words and quotations in West Coast newspapers of the later frontier era…
Pre-1900: Genuine-looking old SW Oregon CW
A short quotation in a dramatized frontier-era scene looks like real Chinuk Wawa…
1951 movie: The Painted Hills (Lassie’s Adventures in the Goldrush)
Did you know Lassie has a Chinuk Wawa connection?
Is kʰanákʰa a loan from sailors’ English?
We know that the Chinuk Wawa word for Pacific Islanders comes from a Hawai’ian one…
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (part 1)
A document of Grand Ronde’s past that I thought was just a rumour, or was lost, has turned up, thanks to Prof. Peter Bakker.
Pre-1924: Another CW “so help me God”
(Image credit: “The Siwash”, page 22) These keep turning up!
Chief Louis Clexlixqen and BC’s French of the Mountains
Quite a late issue of Kamloops Wawa (October 1905, Number 215) has no Chinuk Wawa in it, but its handwritten (mimeographed) French contents tell us something remarkable about frontier-era BC.
1908: Mrs. Codfish couldn’t even talk Chinook!
Amazing how many racist assumptions one Settler reporter could pack into a brief local news piece…
1896: Chief Andrew of North Thompson teases Chief Louis of Kamloops
Two Secwépemc chiefs show that they like each other…