January 1895: “Our Monthly Budget”, Part 1 of 3 (St Agnes’s weird story)
Kamloops Wawa #124, page 2, promises us:
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Places called “Tenas Illihee / Tenas Illahe(e)”
The Chinook Jargon term for ‘island’, tənəs-íliʔi, has a literal meaning of ‘little land’.
1883: John Slocum’s return from death + competition with White guys
This “Wiggins” stuff is an interesting wrinkle!
Myron Eells’s hymn book (Part 5 “Whiskey” [B])
Song #5 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):
1876 German letter quotes SW Washington Native’s CJ
On our CHINOOK listserv 22 years ago, Sue Schafer shared an 1876 German letter from her Satsop, WA, area great-great-grandmother Anna Schäfer.
1894, Tillamook, OR: Multilingual voter survey
Did they really interview any of these folks?
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 15: At North Bend, BC
A sight that would’ve been familiar to many readers of the “Chinook Paper” was this frontier scene…
Japanese “hayaku” + Chinuk Wawa “áyáq” = ???
This resemblance has been pointed out since the 19th century…
1911: snappy “Civilization’s Way” doggerel
A generation into the post-frontier era, the big city paper has a positively jazzy Jargon-tinged poem with a uniquely Pacific NW flavor.
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 18)
The 18th pair of pages in this precious document again brings us plenty of stuff worth knowing about Chinook Jargon.