1896: Recalling “some jargon” from K’alapuya people
Just after the frontier era, non-Natives in the Grand Ronde (Oregon) area still had a vivid grasp of local Chinook Jargon.
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1943, Alaska: “Barbs”
The ever-popular “folks talk weird on the frontier” trope!
1911: Dominion Day (Canada Day) invitation in Jargon
Identifiably Settler-style Chinuk Wawa augments some poetic excesses in English, in today’s “Chinook invitations” entry.
Kamloops + other residential schools, as reported to Native people in Chinook (Part 14: playing music)
It’s kind of fun to learn how to talk about playing music in Chinook… (A link to all instalments in this mini-series.) You may learn a new word here…Look at my comments after… Continue reading
The usefulness of studying French shorthand
An important fact about the “Duployé” shorthand from France that inspired Chinuk Pipa writing —
1871, Oregon: Yew bet there’s pidgin + cussin’!
An implication of the un-translated Chinuk Wawa in this frontier-era item is that pidgin English and cussin’ went along with Jargon.
1885: Warm Spring(s) Agency, Oregon — they all speak the Chinook
They all talk Jargon!
More humor in Chinuk Wawa: 1916, what a local person thought of the hectograph
A little more fun from “Kamloops Wawa” of March 1916 (No. 501), page [1]…
1899: Chinook Nation recognition
Yes, there is Chinuk Wawa in this eyewitness report about the Chinook Indian Nation’s struggle for federal recognition.