The drunkard’s walk, from Chinuk Wawa to Upper Chehalis
Stuff keeps turning up, somehow.
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1854: The Chenook Navy
Time was when Chinuk Wawa got your fairly far in Northern California…
Indian murderer’s trial at Whatcom, 1892
Does this tell us something about people’s perceptions of the Jargon as sometimes slippery?
1892: Nearly all Tlingits speak Chinuk Wawa
In debunking a rumor that the missionary Sheldon Jackson had been murdered by Alaska Natives, we learn a huge linguistic reason why it’s preposterous.
1897, (New) Metlakatla: The Indians here wake cumtux chinook wahwah
As the “Clondyke” mania raged, a well-prepared goldrusher incidentally stopping off at Metlakatla, Alaska was surprised Chinuk Wawa was useless there.
1862: Haidas could communicate with us only via Jargon-speaking newcomers
A man who had been part of a gold rush to the Stikine River while Alaska was still Russian territory notes how limited chances for communication in Haida Gwaii were back then.
Nicola 1904: Sad Accident (Part 4)
It gives away no new thoughts of mine when I say the Christian warning in this concluding segment of our mini-series comes across different in Chinook Jargon than in English…
1856: Grand Ronde-style Chinuk Wawa makes friends in Australia
Oregon immigrant of 1849, steamboat captain Daniel O’Neill (1826-????), tells of his later adventures in Australia where Grand Ronde-style Chinook Jargon came in handy.
Mrs. Jasper Gates’s stage fright
A fairly charming incident…
Shortened Japanese words in Jargon?
Let’s quickly do away with a myth about Chinuk Wawa….