Washington territory pioneer Thomas Wickham Prosch (1850-1915 and yes, a son of early [1857] North Oregon settler, Steilacoom newspaper editor, and official territorial publisher, Charles Prosch) published a Chinook Jargon dictionary in 1888 that I… Continue reading
Pioneer Thomas Prosch of Seattle adds to a string of Chinuk Wawa-rich appearances in this space…
On his election to the Vice-Presidency of the Washington Pioneers Association in 1905, oldtimer and former Indian agent Edwin Eells, who was introduced as about to speak in “both his native tongues — English… Continue reading
Tobacco‘s but an Indian weed, said a moralistic Elizabethan song: But it sure was popular. Chinook Jargon had many words for it… I want to add one to the documentation. You’ll never guess it. Will… Continue reading
Here’s the masculine original “Lines to a Klootchman” to which the “answer song” poem was written. It will help you make sense of that poem, where some real queer-looking Chinook Jargon happens. In… Continue reading
