About the Siwash (Haida Gwaii) sealers in Hawaii
From the land of Pidgin English, an absolutely fascinating interview in Chinuk Wawa…
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Poetic BC family history and Chinook
The view I have of this book unfortunately doesn’t tell me the page numbers, so let’s call these “Snippet 1” and “Snippet 2”.
Lo in the calaboose; thanks a lot, Deputy Marshall Ass
Frontier-era Eastern Oregon?
Salmon-canning in British Columbia, 1890s
A woman visitor’s view of “how it’s made” on the lower Fraser River involves a bit of legitimate Chinuk Wawa, for local colour.
Ladies’ clubs named in Chinook Jargon
A turn-of-the-century convention of Washington State women’s clubs has a significant Chinuk Wawa component!
You can be the sharpest tool in the shed! Learn these new words!
Attention gearheads!
California CPE: Heap big Odd Fellow
Pidgins as street languages in the late frontier period…
My Dear St. Nicholas:–
So wonderful: a local girl tells about Chinuk Pipa shorthand in a national kids’ magazine.
Dregs of Chinook Jargon in a Nicola Valley court case
An awkwardly prosecuted case of illegal liquor sales to Indigenous women (a classic colonialist prohibition) near Kamloops carries plenty of implied information about the post-frontier Nicola Valley language situation…