Myron Eells’s hymn book (Part 9: Untitled, to the tune of “Happy Land”)
Song #9 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):
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“Newspaper salmon”, a PNW Indigenous English phrase (and a BC Chinook Jargon discovery)
A letter from a British Columbia Indigenous man in Chinook Jargon has puzzled me a bit:
“Jagwire” and “silex”
I’ve made the point any number of times that English-literate Americans often spelled Chinuk Wawa’s /á/ with the letter < i >.
1914, Oregon: Cradlebaugh issues book of poems
I’m mentioning this only because it uses a “Chinook jargon” word that will confuse people.
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 19: Steel-frame buildings in Chicago
Another of the precious, and popular, photos in “Kamloops Wawa”, the Chinook Jargon newspaper, revealed some of the amazements of the world beyond British Columbia…
1897: Kulturarbeiten in Britisch-Columbien
Here’s something different!
1898, Portland, OR: Red Men banqueted!
The printed menu of an Improved Order of Red Men (a Settler club) banquet in post-frontier Oregon was titled in Chinook Jargon…
1895, Seattle: “1753 — Ankuti. 1895 — Okoke Sun.”
Bit of a boo-boo there!
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost, linguistic legacy (Part 22)
The 22nd pair of pages (mis-numbered as “21” on the original page) from this precious document again brings us plenty of stuff worth knowing about Chinook Jargon.
1922: John W. Pettigrew doggerel
John W. Pettigrew sent his local Oregon newspaper “a specimen verse of genuine handmade Oregon poetry”, asking for people’s evaluations of it.