1932: Intricate sports cheer in Jargon (BC rugby)
This 15-per-team sport was clearly Rugby Union…
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1873: Earliest “skookum paper”?
A Chinook Jargon phrase that I learned on a research trip in southeast Alaska makes its first known appearance in southwest Oregon…
1905: “Siwash” camp on Copper River, Alaska
When I posted this on the old CHINOOK listserv in 2008, we had no way to show pictures…
Lower Chehalis stəʔíxʷciɬ and 3 parallels with Chinuk Wawa
I’ve mentioned many times the outsized, but under-researched, role of Lower Chehalis Salish in forming “Chinook Jargon”.
WW2: “Loose Lips Sink Ships” in Jargon
A famous World War 2 slogan, familiar to Americans of a certain age, also showed up in Chinuk Wawa.
1926: Old boys ‘n’ Jargon doggerel/invitation in Rupert
Dusting off the Chinook to reminisce about a fundamental tragedy…
Why there are so few loan words in Ktunaxa (Kootenay/Kutenai)
A lack of foreign borrowed words in a language doesn’t necessarily tell you there were historically no foreigners present…
2014: The first document to call Chinuk Wawa a Métis language?
Giving credit where it’s due.
4 words for ‘star’ in Chinuk Wawa
A language mostly documented by short lists of words can still surprise you!
1915: “J. Sox” Brown accepts invitation w/the “sitkum dollar” joke!
Twenty-five years after the closing of the frontier era, this Chinook Jargon from Canadian-born pioneer Josiah Sawyer “J. Sox” Brown (1845-1932) had to be translated for newspaper readers…