1863-1865: Chinuk Wawa from a German in Oregon!
Jargon as written German-style, in the Fraktur alphabet even!
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1901: Moose Hall invitation + unique Valdez, AK Jargon
Mockery of the northwesternmost Natives to speak Chinuk Wawa is still evidence of how they spoke it!
1865: Settler superstitions about “Indian Superstitions” about earthquakes
This “our Indians” thing sounds real, real patronizing…
1932: Stalo-sawash remembered
A casual comment makes an oldtimer’s interview plenty interesting to us…
1928: Menu in Chinook in BC, and “God Save the King”
Maybe you can help decipher this!
‘Alder’ as ‘paddle-wood’
I’ve previously written about origins of Chinook Jargon’s ísik-stík (‘paddle-wood’) as the name of a tree species…
Upper Chehalis Salish as the original Stick Indians?
From George Gibbs’s phenomenal 1877 ethnographic and historical tour de force, “Tribes of Western Washington and Northwest Oregon”…
1913: Turkey trot put to shame
I believe the reference here is to the dance craze, not to Thanksgiving-season charitable footraces.
April 23, 2022: Experience 1850s life at Fort Nisqually
Sign up! Go talk good Chinuk Wawa to everyone!
laklés vs. klís, and Métis
Another of those words that have been in Chinuk Wawa for so long that they have both French & English roots…