1899: Red Men’s Day at the Spokane Fair
It was after “the closing of the frontier”, but Red Men’s Day at the Spokane Fair brought out the editor’s untranslated Chinuk Wawa for knowledgeable news readers’ benefit:
It was after “the closing of the frontier”, but Red Men’s Day at the Spokane Fair brought out the editor’s untranslated Chinuk Wawa for knowledgeable news readers’ benefit:
What I love about this Jargon headline:
Add this to your collection of jovial Chinuk Wawa party invitations, sub-file Redmen.
Does sex sell dry goods to Red Men?Â
Kind of a sad flipside to my recent post on “B.C. Black History (etc.)“.
The “Improved Order of Red Men” had a long association with Chinuk Wawa…
The Improved Order of Red Men strike again.
[Edited immediately after publishing 🙂 to note — I’ve just realized that word sak-talm ‘paddle’ in Scammon’s article is another good mystery. More soon! DDR] Here’s a leisurely cruise guided by a knowledgeable pilot.
This oddball item would be an eyecatcher, in your local newspaper in 1898.