1921: Alaskan “Eyak” Jargon is a mix of pidgins!
Well after the frontier period, a Chinook Jargon invitation in Alaska is quite a different animal from “the classic Chinook”.
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Kamloops Wawa humour (part 3: White people’s weird horses)
I expect Native folks had already heard these called “bicycles” in English…
1825: Scouler all around the PNW coast
Fort Vancouver was so new that it wasn’t yet as big as Fort George (Astoria), at the time when naturalist John Scouler visited the Pacific Northwest.
1903: What was the original Chinook motto of the Kittitas County auditor?
This is a new discovery for me — should be possible to track down the answer.
siʔaɬ (Chief Seattle’s) speeches to back-translate: Part 1 of 3
wəx̣t hayu masi kʰapa ukuk lalang-tayi Peter Bakker, yaka munk-kəmtəks nayka qʰa pus nanich ixt ɬush skul-pipa…
Cree influence on Chinuk Wawa?
A smart & interesting question was asked the other day by Luke Etxeberria in the “Chinook Jargon” group on Facebook.
1786: Alexander Walker on the PNW coast (part 2 of 2)
Here’s part 2 of 2 in our examination of a really neat historical document of early contact…
1786: Alexander Walker on the PNW coast (part 1 of 2)
For another early-contact account of “Nootka” (and south-central Alaska), we have a superb edition of…
Chxí ~ ‘recent past’ is tenseless!
(Don’t read this unless you want to talk fluent Jargon.)
1897: An Old-Time Salutation
Chinook spellings unique to one person are the evergreen hallmark of honestly learned Jargon!