1863: “Oregon” is ‘gold bottom’ in Irish!?
Just to add to the confusing mix of theories about where the name “Oregon” came from…
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Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 21: to stop)
More lovely stuff, new to science at the time, from Prof. Franz Boas’s brief 1892 article on “The Chinook Jargon“…
RIP Duane Pasco (Chinook Jargon in the news)
With thanks to Jeffrey Kopp for making me aware of this sad event.
1912, BC: Another Chinuk Wawa telegram
Tuck this into our file on telegrams in Chinook Jargon.
1913 Oregon ad: Kopet kultus klatawa
In the post-frontier era, you see, anything written in Chinuk Wawa caught the eye as an oddity.
Old postcards (Part 3: what we call Indigenous women around here)
The sender wrote an explanatory message on this one, involving Chinook Jargon…
1910: “Chinook” = Spokane Salish?!
This memory from Spokane, Washington, has to do with the earlier time when it was known as Spokan Falls, Washington Territory.
Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 12: varying ways of pronouncing)
Words from Chinook Jargon that our friend Dr Dale McCreery has found in the Nuxalk (“Bella Coola Salish”) language…
1943, Alaska: “Barbs”
The ever-popular “folks talk weird on the frontier” trope!