1908 [1855], SW Oregon: A different SKOOKUM HOUSE
From early Settler days in southwest Oregon, specifically from the Rogue River War, comes a new meaning of “skookum house”.
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Myron Eells’s hymn book (Part 3: “Come to Jesus”)
Song #3 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):
1899, Washington: Wenatchee tribe doesn’t speak Chinook…supposedly
The loaded headline “LOST TRIBE OF INDIANS” introduces a long article reprinted from the Portland Oregonian in the early post-frontier era.
Already looking back (to 1840) in 1877 Oregon
An unsigned but no doubt genuine memory of quite early Settler days naturally makes use of plenty Chinuk Wawa!
1912: Address delivered at…Grand Ronde! (Part 4 of 5)
I made a new mini-series when…
“páya” words in Lower Chehalis Salish
Honestly, I’m trying to un-confuse you!
1874: Jargon nickname for Oregon businessman
Not obviously translated for the readers was this Chinook Jargon pun in frontier-era Oregon.
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 13: “Indian group at Douglas Lake”
More from Spahomin, also known as Douglas Lake, BC, in northern Syilx (“Okanagan”) country.
1891, Atna territory, Alaska: In an Indian village
The Copper River people, a.k.a. Atna Athabaskans (Dene), were just about the farthest northwesterly folks to have used Chinuk Wawa.
Another Indigenous language that preserves old Chinuk Wawa’s name for “Saturday”
There’s this one interesting word in Lower Chehalis Salish…