1933 doggerel: “Chinook and Chinee”
This post-frontier poem amounts to a southeast Alaska variation on the classic Pacific Northwest “sitkum dolla” joke!
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Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 9: Sechelt church
Pictures were a valued commodity in the early days of Chinuk Wawa literacy, in southern British Columbia.
1892: Les Crees ilihi
Is this “les Cris” (the Crees)?
1922: The Indian Shaker religion
There is very good information here about Indian Shaker Church use of Chinuk Wawa…
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 12)
Can you explain to me why isik ‘paddle’ is translated as fondu ‘melted’?
“Pom-pom” and púmpum(-t’əmànəwas)
As a general US English word around 1900, “pompom” (or pompon) meant a certain sort of decoration to ladies’ hats and slippers.
1914: Wye selacht! Jargon+Salish invitation / doggerel poem
We owe Alex Code for sending along this clipping of an utterly fascinating entry in our files of Chinuk Wawa invitations & poetry…
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4J (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences)
Today it’s Chinook Jargon à-go-go!
The Mission Field and “Chinhook” (Part 4 of 6)
The pot calls the kettle black: Protestant missionary William Henry Lomas (1839-1889) criticizes the Catholic missionary for preaching in Chinuk Wawa.
Further Lushootseed-Chinuk Wawa
A really interesting phrase pops up in a fictionalized Puget Sound-area hunting story that I found: