1914: LBDB’s “Chinook-English Songs”, part 5 of 15 “Wah, Hy-as Chuck Cooley”
More of Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett’s odd use of Chinuk Wawa for you today, in this long-delayed episode.
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1890, Salem, OR: The Chinook Club + earlier Grand Ronde pronunciation
The following long quotation in Jargon has all the earmarks of “Whites playing Indian”…
Didactic dialogues in CJ dictionaries: Part 6, Coombs’s “Interrogatories”
Found at the Royal BC Museum as a freestanding holding, a set of “English Conversation and Interrogatories Answered in Chinook” sent me searching for its source.
1847, “Chenook” village: Potlatching tomanawas
A Settler cop’s letter expressing alarm about the state of law and order at Astoria & Chinook, Oregon Territory, is quoted in a newspaper…
A crumb more of Lower Chehalis Salish etymology for CW ‘beg’
I want to give credit to some elders.
Weather phenomena & Salish influence in {at least Northern} Chinook Jargon
We made an excellent lesson out of this once, in our BC Chinuk Wawa group (ask me about joining in)…
So many Métis words in interior PNW languages (Part 10: Nxaʔamxcín a.k.a. Moses-Columbia Salish)
The only dictionary I’ve found of the north-central Washington state language, Nxaʔamxcín a.k.a. Moses-Columbia Salish, is a small one from the Colville Confederated Tribes.
1906, Salem, OR: Pioneer John Hunt sings in Jargon
Here’s another oldtimers’ reunion story where we can wonder if the guy was singing a song learned from Native people, or one of the Chinuk Wawa Christian hymns that the pioneers composed so… Continue reading
Nebraska, 1876: A “Chinook song” is foreign
Whenever you research something, collect the negative evidence too!
1890, Fort Spokane: “Erin go bragh”
To say that today’s newspaper clipping fails to meet any standards of objectivity is like calling Saint Patrick “Irish”. It’s true, but there’s plenty more to be said.