William Mason Colvig (1845-1936) and a 1920 “Skookum Potlach” (Xmas) card from Oregon
Leo Barker “came upon this by happenstance” regarding a Settler immigrant of 1851 to southwest Oregon:
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1917 BC Xmas card!
Click here for other Chinook Jargon Christmas stories, but…
Kamloops + other residential schools, as reported to Native people in Chinook (Part 11: an 1896 flood)
Today’s bit of information comes from the Chinook paper, although not in Chinook Jargon…
1915, OR: Bartlett + McFarland sing Chinook at pioneer party
The notorious Mrs. Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett performed some of her atrocious Chinook Jargon translations of popular Settler songs for her buddies…
Crowdsourcing: How would you track down these 27 Belgian Chinook writers of 1895?
These 27 young fellas were pen pals with the Chinook-writing Indigenous folks of southern British Columbia.
More humor in Chinuk Wawa: Quilchena, automobile, what have you
Today’s tidbit is from an issue of Kamloops Wawa that was only in French…
1905, BC (and WA): Early Days of Lower Okanagan
Here are some neat Chinuk Wawa-related recollections from the BC-Washington border area in the Okanagan a.k.a. Okanogan country.
A, I, O and sometimes Y: Even more about writing PNW indigenous words weird
I’ve found even more examples supporting my observation that old-time spellings of Chinook Jargon words often wrote < i > (or < y >) when they meant [á].
Some broad ideas about “Tenino”
The Umatilla Sahaptin dictionary is a treasure.
Is CJ “wahpoos” actually ‘Snake TRIBE’?
The earliest, and effectively the only, occurrence of “wahpoos” as a word for a snake in Chinuk Wawa is found in George Coombs Shaw’s 1909 dictionary, published in Seattle.