qʰa-____ is pretty old in Jargon
“hihi-pʰikcha” by Tyla LaGoy, on page 13 of Lane Community College’s magazine “Chinuk Wawa” #2, has the expression qʰa-ikta (literally ‘where-thing’), ‘whatever’…
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Hood River Valley, Oregon, 1915 [1852]: quoting remembered Native speech in translation
Here’s a newspaper excerpt from a book, “Reminescences [Reminiscences] of Eastern Oregon“, by Mrs. Elizabeth Laughlin Lord.
1896: Recalling “some jargon” from K’alapuya people
Just after the frontier era, non-Natives in the Grand Ronde (Oregon) area still had a vivid grasp of local Chinook Jargon.
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries (Part 5: This City of Ours)
Sort of a strange place to find example sentences of Chinuk Wawa: a civic history textbook for Seattle kids.
So many Métis words in interior PNW languages (part 9: Snchitsu’umshtsn / Coeur d’Alene)
Let’s look beyond the heavily traveled transport corridor of the old fur-trade “brigades”…
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4R (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences)
This installment is the last of our George Gibbs sentences from the Fort Vancouver region in the frontier eera.
Chinuk Wawa in the news: Letter to the editor in CW and English
I feel bad that this one slipped through the cracks & got delayed for a year!
AF Chamberlain’s field notes of Chinuk Wawa from SE British Columbia (Part 9: making camp,pounding berries, coïtus, little boy)
There are a number of discoveries in this 9th installment of our look at Alexander Francis Chamberlain’s field documentation of the Northern Dialect of Chinook Jargon.
Kamloops + other residential schools, as reported to Native people in Chinook (Part 12: Miss Lizette Andre; learning English through Chinuk Pipa; Colorado + the Jargon)
“The Industrial School”, you understand, was the first of the names of the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4Q (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences: Commands and talking to dogs)
Today’s selection from the always high-quality Chinuk Wawa sentences of George Gibbs focuses on giving orders. I reckon we’d say iskam (Ø)! to tell a dog to ‘fetch!’ Read on…