A bagful of Halloween treats!
Some eerily evocative previous posts for Halloween…
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Happy Halloween: A part Upper Chehalis, part Chinuk Wawa monstrosity? :)
From the land of the “Halloweena” tribe…
1888: A Halloween tangent
Only obliquely related to either Chinuk Wawa or Hallowe’en, the following piece of PNW regional humour was irresistible…
1893: Happy Chinook Halloween
I’ve once again managed to find a connection between Halloween and Chinuk Wawa 🙂
How to say “Halloween” in Chinuk Wawa
You didn’t know how to say “Halloween” in Chinook Jargon? I have a treat for you.
The Halloweena Indians
(Image credit: YouTube) For another seasonally appropriate article, turn out the lights and draw close as I tell you about…the Halloweena Indians. Scary! On a cold day when white people were still outnumbered… Continue reading
1808-1810: The wreck of the Sv. Nikolai
One surviving travel narrative from early PNW contact times is not about trading, but about a year and a half of terror.
1908: Reminiscences of Charles A. Splawn
From the “Indian district” of Ellensburg, Washington, mid- to post-frontier times…
1911: The vampire used a combination of Chinook and sign language :)
Extra Halloween / Chinook material for you…
1846: Frémont’s “Narrative” and implicit CW
Not all documents of Chinuk Wawa seem like documents of CW.