1883: Hyas close ictas at Mattoon’s
One of several ads for a western Oregon store in the late frontier era was in Jargon:
Monthly Archive: November, 2023
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Culture lessons: Things Chinuk Wawa doesn’t do (Part 7: what does “is” mean?)
Talking Jargon means you never have to say “is” 😁
1913: Potato(es) Illahee is BC Chinuk Wawa
From the British Columbia town that soon moved & renamed itself to Prince George…
1894, Chelan, WA: A language now little used (alternate take)
The Chelan [šəlæn] Salish man known as Cultus Jim, in north-central Washington state, was evidently known for his clear expression of Indigenous land title, in Chinuk Wawa.
Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 15: ‘to put aside, up’)
Another of the now well known Chinuk Wawa words that Prof. Franz Boas was the first to document in print is t’úʔan, which now means ‘to have, keep’.
1910, Wenatchee, WA: Defining a gentle cayuse
A contradiction in terms, the way this article about Jargon & the courts tells it!
“A few interjections” in Jargon dialects
A curious little list is given to us by JMR Le Jeune in his “Chinook Rudiments” of 1924, on pages 8-9.
Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 5: ‘now’)
Our friend, the linguist Dale McCreery, posted a neat observation on the big Facebook “Chinook Jargon” group…
1869, western Washington: The effects of civilization
We keep a file of Chinook Jargon-related poetry from oldtime newspapers…
1885, BC: The fish hatchery mystery
Can we bring forensic linguistics into a historical dispute? Let’s try!