Circa 1880: Jargon with the Coeur d’Alenes
I found this item online in 2005 at a link that no longer exists…
Daily Archive: May 11, 2022
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1923: Yet another version of the “Seattle Illahee” song
Not so many locals understood Chinuk Wawa in 1923, so there’s another reason why the newspaper editor left this one untranslated.
1912: Magistrate Edmonds cumtux Chinook Wawa
Not so long after the frontier era, when Chinook Jargon was still a broadly useful tool in British Columbia, many court dates relied on this language.