1888, Umatilla: A Polyglot Court
This may have taken place in Portland, Oregon, with a Native defendant from the Umatilla area of northeast Oregon, in the late frontier period.
This may have taken place in Portland, Oregon, with a Native defendant from the Umatilla area of northeast Oregon, in the late frontier period.
This is far from the first time the name “Pocahontas” has made its appearance on my website…
Why would a Protestant preach in French in the Chilcotin country in 1861?
This question came up in our Saturday morning Chinook Jargon group this weekend … Interested in joining us? Email me: spokane ivy @ gmail . com
Back-translation, anyone?
A couple of generations past the frontier era, a kid who spoke Chinuk Wawa was worth a news article.
In the post-frontier period, a traveling salesman in western Washington managed to avoid the already popular “sitkum dollar” joke…
“Half-breeds” took a lot of blame for social frictions between Natives and Settlers…
Some really nice visuals are to be found in an obscure old book with a Chinuk Wawa title…
This somewhat fanciful, sometimes nonsensical, piece comes to us from more than a generation after the frontier era…