1851: “Klah high ijurn”
Here we find some of the earliest published Chinuk Wawa, and it’s from the Grand Ronde area.
Monthly Archive: October, 2023
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Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 12: Spahomin
An early view of Spahomin!
1882: Ave Maria in Chinuk Wawa — where did it come from?
There’s got to be a really interesting story behind this never-before-seen Chinuk Wawa text!
1885 ad: Spose mika tikeh iskum iktas
From “a paper for the times” in the late frontier era, a Chinuk Wawa advertisement…
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 15)
The 15th pair of pages in this precious document again brings us plenty of stuff worth knowing about Chinook Jargon.
1918: Mark Twain (?) in Jargon-related PNW folklore
It’s a lot of fun to discover little bits of Pacific Northwest oral traditions, and this one involves two nationally famous men!
1913: Oregon Pioneers Reunion w/Chinook songs by LBD Bartlett & C Walker
The first Settler kid born out here, and another who translated lots of songs into Jargon, entertained the Oregon Pioneer Association.
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4M (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences: ‘where?’ and copulas)
The theme of today’s fluent Fort Vancouver-style sentences is asking ‘where?’…
1911: Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) audio in Chinuk Wawa
Hey readers! Here’s a crowdsourcing challenge for you!
1894: Some Chinook song or other
An Oregon “grange” meeting featured dinner entertainment in Chinuk Wawa, just after the frontier era, not far from Grand Ronde.