1912, Haida Gwaii: You can trust Cochrane!
Naika wawa mirsi kopa okok Alex “Alik” Code kopa okok tanas pipa.
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1893: “Siwashes” at the [Chicago World’s] Fair
This is an oddity, with genuine Chinuk Wawa from Native people, far from home, who chose to play up to White people’s stereotypes.
1863-1865: Chinuk Wawa from a German in Oregon!
Jargon as written German-style, in the Fraktur alphabet even!
1901: Moose Hall invitation + unique Valdez, AK Jargon
Mockery of the northwesternmost Natives to speak Chinuk Wawa is still evidence of how they spoke it!
1865: Settler superstitions about “Indian Superstitions” about earthquakes
This “our Indians” thing sounds real, real patronizing…
1932: Stalo-sawash remembered
A casual comment makes an oldtimer’s interview plenty interesting to us…
1928: Menu in Chinook in BC, and “God Save the King”
Maybe you can help decipher this!
‘Alder’ as ‘paddle-wood’
I’ve previously written about origins of Chinook Jargon’s ísik-stík (‘paddle-wood’) as the name of a tree species…
Upper Chehalis Salish as the original Stick Indians?
From George Gibbs’s phenomenal 1877 ethnographic and historical tour de force, “Tribes of Western Washington and Northwest Oregon”…
1913: Turkey trot put to shame
I believe the reference here is to the dance craze, not to Thanksgiving-season charitable footraces.