1913, northwest Alaska doggerel: “Songs of the Neukluk”
Found in a privately published book, “Songs of the Neukluk“, by Ewen MacLennan and Charles Wilbert Snow, which I bet was funded by someone’s gold finds.
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1924, OR: Warren N. Vaughn, Early settlement of Tillamook County
Firsthand memories of the frontier era in northwestern Oregon, from Warren N[icholas]. Vaughn (1823-1907), mention a number Jargon-related people and events.
1905, NW WA: “Episode of the Utopia” doggerel
The connection with Chinook Jargon here is awful thin…
Grant Smith 1996 on CJ place names
I read what other scholars have said about Chinook Jargon…
1914: LBDB’s “Chinook-English Songs”, part 7 of 15 “Good Night Ladies”
I’m delighted to share with you another Chinook Jargon song from more than a century ago!
1905: English/Jargon doggerel for the “Sultan of Zulu”
How much do you know about the Sultan of Zulu?
1887, Yakima, WA: Indigenous speeches in Chinook Jargon at the 4th of July
Here’s a nice example of Indigenous leaders making public speeches in Chinuk Wawa during the frontier era…at the Settler celebration par excellence.
1884: “You don’t know the chances” in Victoria, BC…if you can talk some Chinuk Wawa
I wonder if this enthusiast about Victoria, British Columbia got his info about Chinook Jargon dictionaries from a speaker of CJ? 😁😁…
1909: “Histoire Générale de la Sténographie” + Kamloops Wawa
Among the takeaways from today’s find are a couple of senior Catholic officials who supposedly were Chinook Jargon pen pals with Indigenous people of BC…
Cutting deeper into the etymology of t’ɬəmínxwət “tell a lie”
Taking a sec to point out something I’ve not said out loud before…