Still more about Pickett & Jargon discoveries
First, you have Archie Binns.
First, you have Archie Binns.
Chinook Jargon is candidly used for local colour in this touristy 1907 eyewitness piece…
From a pretty racist newspaper article, let’s excerpt just its cartoon and one paragraph.
Today’s old news clipping is short and to the point.
Here’s the running tally:
“From Siletz and Yaquina” is the header on a mid-to-late frontier-era letter to the editor telling of a pleasure trip to the Oregon coast.
We all have a colorful neighbor who always finds opportunities to inject their lovably offensive opinions into a conversation…
I’m not going to reproduce this entire gruesome article, just the Chinuk Wawa-related sections.
I found out more of “Patriarch” Clayson’s background, and he wasn’t a southerner, he was British…
Something to brighten your flu season in the North land: