AF Chamberlain’s field notes of Chinuk Wawa from SE British Columbia (Part 8: Bread, rock, mend…)
Howdy from Kamloops, BC, where I’m doing a bit of Chinook stuff today!
Howdy from Kamloops, BC, where I’m doing a bit of Chinook stuff today!
Sometimes Chinook Jargon can be downright steampunk!
I posted about the Kamloops residential school yesterday — now here’s something about a well-remembered figure connected with that.
Said to be a 1930’s photo by George Meeres, this shot of the Kamloops residential school entrance surprised me.
A word of Lower Chehalis Salish from elder Emma Luscier in 1941 ultimately shows traces of Chinuk Wawa.
When Alaska was still a newly acquired territory of the USA (since 1867), most Americans to be found there were located in its southeast panhandle.
Most unexpectedly, we find Native people in Oregon doing a minstrel show in Chinuk Wawa…
This one’s also in a non-Chinook Jargon language, but it’s from the Chinook newspaper, and it’s quite a funny true experience!
Very important, as John Peabody Harrington might say in his field notes: here’s Grand Ronde’s style of Chinuk Wawa, spotted in the wild…
Genuine early-creolized, Grand Ronde area, Chinook Jargon had already crept into Pacific NW English by the time our first newspapers were being published (and complained about).