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1895: Olympia society has its way with Jargon loans

Technically just one step into the post-frontier era, 3 Chinuk Wawa words in the Oly paper aren’t really translated…

1914: LBDB’s “Chinook-English Songs”, part 4 of 15 “Hy-iu Moo-lok Mitlite”

Unusually for Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett’s collected Chinook Jargon songs, this one’s an original, not a translation of a hit.

1920: Volleyball invitation in Tacoma

An overly enthusiastic translator a generation after the frontier era needs a fact-check…

1897: Tacoma Redmen

Just post-frontier, an interesting initiative to translate the names of popular Settler dances…

1899 Xmas: Have you read the posters?

Another Chinook Jargon artifact from Kittitas County that I’d like to find…

1900: IORM invite in Jargon

You won’t get much Chinook reading practice here, but…

1921: Alaskan “Eyak” Jargon is a mix of pidgins!

Well after the frontier period, a Chinook Jargon invitation in Alaska is quite a different animal from “the classic Chinook”.

Red Men Greet Their Big Chiefs

The Red Men were a Settler fraternal organization that we’ve seen was quite attached to the “Jargon”…

1914: tyee kopa konaway: The Star-Smith Tilikum wedding

A 1914 publicity stunt by Seattle civic boosters was “the Star-Smith-Tilikum wedding”…

1906: A Wapato invitation

An addition to the post-frontier “Chinook invitations” file: