1909: “Histoire Générale de la Sténographie” + Kamloops Wawa
Among the takeaways from today’s find are a couple of senior Catholic officials who supposedly were Chinook Jargon pen pals with Indigenous people of BC…
Monthly Archive: May, 2025
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1892, WA: Kikisoblu (daughter of Chief Seattle) speaks
Early settler Henry L. Yesler’s death is reported in the Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer of December 18, 1892, page 8, columns 1-2, in an article headlined “House of Mourning”, with Chinook Jargon prominent.
Cutting deeper into the etymology of t’ɬəmínxwət “tell a lie”
Taking a sec to point out something I’ve not said out loud before…
Chinook Jargon in the news: BC teachers get a CJ workshop
Pages 24-25 of BC Teacher magazine’s January-February 2025 issue report on a recent conference of social studies teachers from around that province.
1895: “Chinook Hymns” in Chinuk Pipa (Part 4: Naika Chako Wawa)
Pages 2, 3, and part of 4 in the small book “Chinook Hymns” (6th edition, 1895, Kamloops) show us the song, “Naika Chako Wawa”…
You can buy this piece of Chinook Jargon history
Got $555.21 (US) laying around?…
Darrin Brager’s find of Vocabulario Chinook
Dleit haiyoo naika wawa masi kopa Darrin Brager!
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 11) (published out of sequence as Part 22A!)
Among the very early sources to point out that ‘1’ also means ‘(an)other’ in Chinuk Wawa —
1865, BC (west coast of Vancouver Island): Shipwreck and loss of life, and no Chinook!
Here we learn of the wreck of the American bark Iwanowna of San Francisco, on a trip out of Port Townsend (Washington Territory), at Nootka Island, British Columbia.
1913, AK: Suggests a Rabbit as Alaska’s State Seal
Chinook Jargon was already identified with the Settler/colonizer version of Alaska “oldtimers” by 1913.