Happy Halloween: A part Upper Chehalis, part Chinuk Wawa monstrosity? :)
From the land of the “Halloweena” tribe…
Monthly Archive: October, 2021
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1888: A Halloween tangent
Only obliquely related to either Chinuk Wawa or Hallowe’en, the following piece of PNW regional humour was irresistible…
1911: The vampire used a combination of Chinook and sign language :)
Extra Halloween / Chinook material for you…
1893: It’s easy to ridicule linguistics — but let’s leave Chinook out of it!
The best tie-in here is, to my surprise, to Chinuk Wawa.
1851: Good lower Columbia CW sentences
Preserved from the frontier period in the mind of a sharp observer…
1895: Spoke for Oregon — which hymn is that?
A somewhat humorous anecdote raises a neat research question…
19th c.: THE BRITISH COLONIST (Part 3: A Card, 1859)
There may be a snide pun between Chinook and English here…
1792: Galiano’s expedition, and a controlled experiment in pidgin formation
There’s an admirable awareness of Indigenous people’s languages in this early contact account…
1865: Olympia store ad in Chinook
Frontier-era clothiers in Olympia, Washington couldn’t go wrong by using Chinook Jargon to draw attention to their wares!
1874: Idaho Jargon doggerel
“Cowboy poets” had a vogue around the year 2000, as I recall…