1880: Another Lord’s Prayer, Grand Ronde style
Out of the many Chinook Jargon versions of the Christian “Lord’s Prayer”, this one from the Grand Ronde, Oregon area stands out for its unique spellings…
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Another (lovely) Chinook Lord’s Prayer
We’ve seen a few versions of The Lord’s Prayer (“Our Father”) in Chinuk Wawa; today we’ll look at a 1909 one.
1907: A (mis-)remembered central Washington “Lord’s Prayer”?
A Lord’s Prayer that giveth, and taketh away!
Gill’s earliest Lord’s Prayer (1884)
Among the very earliest occurrences of the Chinuk Wawa Lord’s Prayer in print is this from an 1884 Oregon newspaper.
More about General Pickett & a Jargon “Lord’s Prayer”
“Pickett and His Men” is a popular biography by [Mrs.] Lasalle Corbell Pickett (2nd edition; Atlanta, GA: The Foote & Davies Company) of her husband, Confederate States of America General George — one… Continue reading
The Lord’s Prayer ends with “Kloshe klutchman”?
What looks like a gratuitous sexist insult, “wake klooch kloochman” in my previous post, naturally invites a prayerful response. Spoiler alert — this gets gratuitous too. The Lord’s Prayer in Chinook Nisika Papa kla… Continue reading
1921: Prayer Chanted in Indian Opens House Session
I include a clipping of the entire article in case you want to read it…
1933: Premium on good stories as old timers gather in Similkameen
Once again many thanks to our friend Alex Code, for sharing another fun clipping from a newspaper that’s given us several of them.
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4A (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences)
Let’s be clear: George Gibbs’s highly influential 1863 dictionary of Fort Vancouver-area early-creolized Chinuk Wawa doesn’t so much present us with didactic dialogues as fluent phrases…