1873: Earliest “skookum paper”?
A Chinook Jargon phrase that I learned on a research trip in southeast Alaska makes its first known appearance in southwest Oregon…
A Chinook Jargon phrase that I learned on a research trip in southeast Alaska makes its first known appearance in southwest Oregon…
One of the more impenetrable little mysteries of Chinuk Wawa may now be cleared up.
A phrase I learned from doing research in Alaska is “skookum paper”.
Both of the Pacific NW Métis languages show up in a couple of later frontier narratives of north-central Washington…
An article inspired by seeing a certain Victoria judge’s name in association with Chinuk Wawa.
Previously, on chinookjargon.com…
A fella I don’t reckon I knew much about came early to Northern Oregon (pre-Washington Territory) & noted plenty of Chinook Jargon there…
With the help of some friends, I’d like to hark back to a reported Chinuk Wawa conversation.
The above drawing by Heywood Walter Seton-Karr (1859-1938) as a member of the New York Times Alaska Expedition is the only substantial piece of Chinuk Wawa in his memoir…
When I was researching in southeast Alaska, local museum folks referred to “skookum boards“ to mean the plaques sometimes found on the fronts of Native bighouses in Alaskan Tlingit territory soon after the… Continue reading