1913: Swiss immigrant talked Chinook
Early in the post-frontier era, an immigrant from Switzerland to BC was eulogized, in part for his experience of gold-rush Chinuk Wawa.
Monthly Archive: February, 2021
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El Comancho’s Washington, DC newspaper column on Chinook Jargon (5 of 6)
This is the last regular installment of Walter Shelley “El Comancho” Phillips’s Chinook-for-kids column that I’ve managed to find.
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (part 2)
Lempfrit’s 1849 dictionary manuscript…a couple more pages…
What if there are even more CW nouns from French plurals…?
Maybe a revision of our ideas about French-to-Chinuk Wawa etymologies is in order…
McArthur’s “Oregon Geographic Names” (part 1 of 8)
Finally I’ve gotten hold of a copy of a venerable Oregon reference work…
Trai pus
A good question came up from Thinley Norbu in Facebook’s large Chinook Jargon community…
Pre-1917: Ka-mi-akin, the Last Hero of the Yakimas (part 1 of 2)
Click to access kamiakinlasthero00spla.pdf A classic of Washington territorial literature by Andrew Jackson “Jack” Splawn (1845-1917).
McArthur’s “Oregon Geographic Names” (part 2 of 8)
PLenty more Jargon-related place names in Oregon…
All about barfing
The idea for this post came up as I revisited Victoria Howard’s tale “Just One His Leg, Just One His Arm”…
1896: Obituary of a CW court interpreter
Many a time, we’ve seen that Chinuk Wawa had a crucial role in Settler legal proceedings…