1910: Poker Jim Promises to Help Pendleton Round-Up
Pioneer-era boyhood friends communicated in Chinuk Wawa across ethnic lines…
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1860: Dr. Garrett, James Douglas, and Victoria Native school
Thanks again to researcher Jakob Svorkdal of the University of Victoria for sharing another neat document of Chinook Jargon use in frontier-era Victoria, BC.
1900: Klose Tillicum literary society
Seems like it was always in the post-frontier era, after Jargon declined from daily use, that Settlers started naming things in it.
1873, Oregon: Indian Frank’s opinion
You can express irony in a pidgin language!
1861 California CPE: More engineering
Unnamed immigrants from China had something to say about devastating floods in California’s capital in the frontier era.
1892: nuučaan’uɬ “Indians Afraid of Smallpox”
No vaccine deniers in this bunch!
Why “Grand Round” is really really old in Oregon English
TLDR answer: Métis people!
The Journals of George M. Dawson: British Columbia, 1875-1878 (VOLUME 2)
(Here’s a link to Volume 1.) One of our really good resources on BC Chinuk Wawa — which is far and away the best-documented variety of the language — is the jottings of… Continue reading
Coming soon? “Kilisut Passage”
Various derogatory or incorrect place names have been officially replaced, in the most recent meeting of the Washington State Committee on Geographic Names.
1873: Grand Round Jargon-related humor
Are we to understand that “Frank”, “John”, and the girls are Grand Ronde Indians talking Chinuk Wawa?