Northern Chinook Jargon in real life: GameSense brochure from BCLC
This is probably more Chinook Jargon than you’re used to reading at one pop — take it easy!
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1893 “History of Washington: The Evergreen State”: Volume 2
Just 4 years into statehood, Julian Hawthorne and G. Douglas Brewerton rushed into print the 2-volume “History of Washington: The Evergreen State”.
1893 “History of Washington: The Evergreen State”: Volume 1
Just 4 years into statehood, Julian Hawthorne and G. Douglas Brewerton rushed into print the 2-volume “History of Washington: The Evergreen State”.
The opposite of kʰə́ltəs? íləp!
What’s an antonym of ‘no-good; worthless; useless’ — kʰə́ltəsh / kaltash / kultus — in Chinook Jargon?
Swearing and “yes”
The “i” here in Chinuk Pipa spelling is northern-dialect “é” for ‘Yes’…
“Chinook Spoken Here”
At the late Duane Pasco’s JayHawk Institute website, there’s a pretty great photo of him.
Is Yahooskin a part-Chinuk Wawa tribal name? Or, maybe from *wax̣puš-kni?
Is the tribe name “Yahooskin”, as in “The Yahooskin Tribe of Snake Indians“, from a language other than their own Northern Paiute, at least in part?
1885: The Indian Sign Language (William Philo Clark and Father Ravalli) — and “Chenook”
William Philo Clark (1845-1884) was a US Army officer who wrote a neat book, “The Indian Sign Language”, about that pidgin language of the Northern Plains…
1906: The tomanawis of Chief Cha-we-tsot
I had heard of Albert B Reagan (1871-1936) before, in my reading on Pacific Northwest cultures, but I hadn’t realized he was a relatively primitive anthropologist.
1894, southern BC: Klonas lazy, klonas halo!
Local readers understood the Chinook tag line on this letter to the editor in the early post-frontier era…