Thanks from Dave (2021 and 1897)
I’m thankful to you, my Chinook-loving readers!
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BC Chinuk Wawa love song
I’m thankful to my reader Jakob for sending a link to this nice music!
1792: Crowdsourcing challenge — Galiano’s Hul’q’umi’num (and Nootka Jargon?) vocabulary
I’m taking the approach of asking my readers for language help with Spanish and Coast Salish today…
1898: Signed, Halo Cumtux, Lillooet, BC
Looks like two Chinook writers at work here…
Why Granville Stuart’s Chinuk Wawa was Grand Ronde-ish
When I’ve previously written about Montana settler Granville Stuart’s CW vocabulary, I’ve mused about how surprisingly Grand Ronde-like it is.
1900: IORM invite in Jargon
You won’t get much Chinook reading practice here, but…
1889: Warm Springs Indians request Jargon-speaking agent
At the end of the frontier era, Chinuk Wawa was still an important tool.
1941: Spencer Scott’s SW Oregon Chinuk Wawa vocabulary (audio)
Thanks a million to Chinuk Wawa speaker/writer/revitalizer Alex Code for pointing us to this one!
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”.
Kamloops Wawa humour (part 3: White people’s weird horses)
I expect Native folks had already heard these called “bicycles” in English…