1890: “The Pioneers of Polk” sing in Jargon
Sounds like a great time was had at the first Polk County Pioneer Association reunion in 1890, the year the frontier closed.
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Salish has lotsa possessives ∴ Chinuk Wawa syntax!
Many peculiarities of Chinook Jargon grammar have attracted speculation by linguists…
Blankenship, “The Early History of Thurston County” (Part 5 of 5)
Let’s finish up this mini-series with some bits of quoted Chinuk Wawa and humor …
1895: A variety of questions
Now here’s a loaded question …
sík tə́mtəm ‘sorry’ from Salish?
I noticed a Lower Chehalis Salish term, ɬə́č̓+sqʷələ̀m, meaning ‘heartburn, hangover’…
Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 12: muskrat)
Image credit: Bionic Disco Towards a Jargon translation of “Muskrat Love”…😎
1895: Another Buchanan expert in Jargon…from Grand Ronde and Tulalip
This Edwin Buchanan was the uncle of Charles Milton Buchanan, who preceded him as the physician at Tulalip Indian Reservation.
‘Tomato’, the only Paiute word in Chinuk Wawa
I only know of one word from the Uto-Aztecan language family being used in Chinook Jargon.
Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 2)
Always worth paying attention to are the things our Michif friend Dr. Dale McCreery hears from people in Bella Coola, British Columbia…
1889: The Fourth of July at Skokomish
In the final year of Washington Territory and of “the frontier”, Chinook Jargon continued to play a major role in many communities’ lives.