1863: Oregon Latin
A bit of gentle humor on the subject of Chinook Jargon…
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Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries, Part 4G (Gibbs 1863 ex phrases/sentences) … acting and intending
In my previous installment of this mini-mini-series of Geo. Gibbs’s example sentences, I talked about a very important concept in Chinuk Wawa’s grammar, the “active” verbs…
The descent of Lower Chehalis ‘testicles’, and Chinuk Wawa (plus Proto-Salish discoveries)
Adding to one of the odder New Years Eve posts I’ve written…
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 8)
The 8th pair of page images from this overlooked document of Fort Vancouver-era Chinuk Wawa is quite a discovery…
RIP Martha Clayton of Puget Sound and Alaska, 1858?-1948
One of the first Settler kids born on Puget Sound in Washington Territory went on to work in Alaska as an interpreter.
The Mission Field and “Chinhook” (Part 6 of 6)
The last installment in this mini-series about British Columbia’s Protestant missionaries in the frontier period…
‘Pinning’ down a Lower Chehalis trace in early-creolized Chinuk Wawa
From their Fort Vancouver experience starting in 1838, Catholic missionaries Demers and Blanchet published (with the editing help of L.N. St. Onge) a wonderful little Chinuk Wawa dictionary in 1871.
Blankenship, “Early History of Thurston County, Washington” (Part 2)
Settlers not uncommonly pidginized the pidginized northern-dialect version of Chinook Jargon; today we’ll see reminiscences from two fellas who did so.
1911: “Slings Chinook like pitching quoits”
Funnest simile for talking good Jargon that I’ve seen…
Kamloops Wawa pictures, Part 6: Chapel at North Bend
Our latest vintage photo of Chinook Jargon-speaking country shows an important little village in British Columbia…