Earliest, best evidence of the Alaskan phrase “skookum paper”
A phrase I learned from doing research in Alaska is “skookum paper”.
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1853: George B. McClellan’s PNW railroad survey diary
Previously, on chinookjargon.com…
Samuel Hancock’s “Thirteen Years [give or take] on the Northwest Coast”
A fella I don’t reckon I knew much about came early to Northern Oregon (pre-Washington Territory) & noted plenty of Chinook Jargon there…
Clah’s Chinook revisited
With the help of some friends, I’d like to hark back to a reported Chinuk Wawa conversation.
Weird Jargon & shamans in Alaska
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…
A Tlingit Jargon-English genre, the skookum board
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
More on Robert Brown; he knew his Jargon
We haven’t given Robert Brown (b. 1842) his due. I mean, he was a well-regarded Scottish botanist and explorer of our Pacific Northwest region, and certainly I’ve already praised his Chinook highly, but… Continue reading
Blazing the way, by Emily Denny
Blazing the Way: Or, true stories, songs and sketches of Puget Sound and other pioneers. By Emily Inez Denny. Seattle: Rainier Printing Company, Inc. 1909. I enjoyed noticing on page 33 of this… Continue reading
Townsend’s narrative: Bird Chief and the Indian dogs
J.K. Townsend. 1839. Narrative of a journey across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River… Philadelphia: Henry Perkins. At least in the Chinook Jargon world, this book by an influential naturalist is an… Continue reading
Report of the Columbia Mission
Report of the Columbia Mission. London: Rivingtons, Waterloo Place, 1860 [sic]. A record of the doings of Dr. George Hills (hardly mentioned by name in this book!), the first Anglican Bishop of Columbia, on the Northwest… Continue reading