1917, Oregon: Indian George, another Jargon-speaking weather forecaster
How odd that we have a whole file on Native people using Chinook Jargon to give weather forecasts to Settler colonizers…
Monthly Archive: February, 2024
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1891: Yes sir, it’s a boy!
“Yes, sir!”
Lower Chehalis ‘you’re stupid’ + Chinuk Wawa
Another of the countless cases where Lower Chehalis Salish and Chinook Jargon parallel each other closely:
1895: “Chinook Hymns” in Chinuk Pipa (Part 2: “A New Song for Christmas”)
Calling all readers! Do you know what Christmas carol this Jargon version is based on?
1909: Prominent German salmon man at Salem
Another German talking good Chinuk Wawa in the Pacific Northwest…
Why is it tumála, not *tumólo* etc.?
A simple question: why is ‘tomorrow’ pronounced tumála in Chinook Jargon?
Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 17: ‘to roast’)
Okay, class, settle down.
1892: A startling story
Rumors got lots of play, it seems, in frontier-era Alaska, but calmer heads questioned them.
1857, Oregon: Close nanage this prisoner
Typical for the frontier era, a newspaper had snarky comments about a local prisoner.