More humor in Chinuk Wawa: A wakeup call
From the Chinook paper, but in French, here’s another amusing story.
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December 1894: “Our Monthly Budget” (Part 1 of 3 — Grown men grown women)
I’ve previously featured little bits of this “Monthly Budget” — but here’s a great big blast of real Chinook Jargon for you to practice reading.
Myron Eells’s hymn book (Part 2: “Jesus Loves Me”)
This installment #2 in our mini-series was a really popular song in the Pacific NW, so we have audio of ancestors singing it…
1912: Address delivered at…Grand Ronde! (Part 3 of 5: some Settler tyee talk)
Part 3 of 5, from a great little time capsule of Jargon from Grand Ronde…
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 12: Spahomin
An early view of Spahomin!
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 15)
The 15th pair of pages in this precious document again brings us plenty of stuff worth knowing about Chinook Jargon.
1913: Oregon Pioneers Reunion w/Chinook songs by LBD Bartlett & C Walker
The first Settler kid born out here, and another who translated lots of songs into Jargon, entertained the Oregon Pioneer Association.
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4M (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences: ‘where?’ and copulas)
The theme of today’s fluent Fort Vancouver-style sentences is asking ‘where?’…
1894: Some Chinook song or other
An Oregon “grange” meeting featured dinner entertainment in Chinuk Wawa, just after the frontier era, not far from Grand Ronde.
“Less familiar words” in the Northern Dialect (Part 2A: Le Jeune 1924)
JMR Le Jeune published a pretty comprehensive dictionary of Northern Chinuk Wawa in 1924 (“Chinook Rudiments”), using both the Chinuk Pipa alphabet and the French/English “Roman” letters.