Magnificat in lingua Chinook
Dave’s note: This post accidentally went public before I was done with it. Sorry for the confusion, and enjoy this valuable Jargon document now that it’s finished! An unusual find is this Chinuk Wawa… Continue reading
Dave’s note: This post accidentally went public before I was done with it. Sorry for the confusion, and enjoy this valuable Jargon document now that it’s finished! An unusual find is this Chinuk Wawa… Continue reading →
Today’s post was one of my favorites to write. It started with finding a Chinook song I hadn’t known before (always a thrill!), and it only got better as I followed the historical… Continue reading →
Thanks to Leland Bryant Ross for creating the JPG image of the newspaper article! DDR FOUR-YEAR-OLD SPEAKS CHINOOK Indian Tongue Easy to Her as English! Infant prodigies aplenty have been found who could… Continue reading →
J.H. McGregor, “Jimmy’s Kill“. BC Mining Record. Christmas Supplement, 1900, pages 68-72. A narrative seemingly based on the writer’s actual experiences in far northwestern British Columbia, “Jimmy’s Kill” has dialogue that rings true… Continue reading →
A nice bit of Chinook creeping into local English in the Kootenays: The Nelson (BC) Miner of Saturday, July 19th, 1890 run an article at the top of the middle of three columns on page… Continue reading →
William Wallace Beach (ed.). 1877. The Indian miscellany: Containing papers on the history, antiquities, arts… Albany: J. Munsell. In Albert S. Gatschet’s article here, “Indian languages of the Pacific states and territories”, page 444 brings… Continue reading →
The very first issue of the Chinook Wawa newspaper, Kamloops Wawa, came out on May 2 of 1891. From the very start, its editor Father Le Jeune’s sense of humor shows. (Read on.) … Continue reading →
“Tɨmnákni tímat (writing from the heart): Sahaptin discourse and text in the speaker writing of Xílux̣in”: An excellent MA thesis by a longtime Chinuk Wawa friend, Phil Cash Cash, who some of you will remember… Continue reading →
I have no more to say than that some of us would find the combination of Chinook Jargon and a Northwest craft beer to make a perfect day. Better, even, if Chinook hops… Continue reading →
Some Reminiscences of Old Victoria, by Edgar Fawcett. Toronto: William Briggs. 1912. A nicely told personal memoir by Fawcett (1847-1923, immigrated to Victoria 1859). I read his words as accurately detailed, and they… Continue reading →