Serendipity: Why it’s so perfect to find “Mary Had a Little Lamb” in CW
I won’t repeat the Chinook version of the US children’s rhyme, and song, “Mary Had a Little Lamb“, today.
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1944: Rena V. Grant, “The Chinook Jargon, Past and Present” documents the early spread of CJ in BC
The English professor who discovered a lost Walt Whitman poem also wrote some good scholarly articles on Chinook Jargon.
More about the early-contact origin of elackiè ‘sea otter’
A couple of years ago, I argued for a Salish etymology of the rare old Chinuk Wawa word for ‘sea otter’, < elackiè >.
Implications of foreign in-laws: Against pre-contact CW
In all things, words have implications, and this applies to Chinuk Wawa’s history…
1923: “Indian Bob” and city folks’ amnesia
Alex Code of PoCo Heritage has shared another good Chinook Jargon find with us…
“Colonial Despatches” (Part 1: Seymour to Cardwell, 1865)
The University of Victoria has created a quite a neat online research tool called “Colonial Despatches: The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, 1846-1871″.
“Iaka ukuk”, a LeJeuneism
I just want to go on record about a particular, very distinctive, expression seen quite a lot in the pages of Kamloops Wawa and associated books.
1882: Another Victoria CW court interpreter
Thanks to Sam Sullivan for this news clipping from the late frontier era.
Non-concatenative morphology in Chinuk Wawa?
Non-concatenative (non-segmental) morphology is, I’d say, assumed to be exotic.
1941: Chester Anders Fee, “Oregon’s Historical Esperanto”
Chester Anders Fee (1893-1951) of Pendleton, Oregon, wrote an article titled “Oregon’s Historical Esperanto — the Chinook Jargon” Oregon Historical Quarterly 42(2):176-185, June 1941.