1911: Dominion Day (Canada Day) invitation in Jargon
Identifiably Settler-style Chinuk Wawa augments some poetic excesses in English, in today’s “Chinook invitations” entry.
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Kamloops + other residential schools, as reported to Native people in Chinook (Part 14: playing music)
It’s kind of fun to learn how to talk about playing music in Chinook… (A link to all instalments in this mini-series.) You may learn a new word here…Look at my comments after… Continue reading
The usefulness of studying French shorthand
An important fact about the “Duployé” shorthand from France that inspired Chinuk Pipa writing —
1871, Oregon: Yew bet there’s pidgin + cussin’!
An implication of the un-translated Chinuk Wawa in this frontier-era item is that pidgin English and cussin’ went along with Jargon.
1885: Warm Spring(s) Agency, Oregon — they all speak the Chinook
They all talk Jargon!
More humor in Chinuk Wawa: 1916, what a local person thought of the hectograph
A little more fun from “Kamloops Wawa” of March 1916 (No. 501), page [1]…
1899: Chinook Nation recognition
Yes, there is Chinuk Wawa in this eyewitness report about the Chinook Indian Nation’s struggle for federal recognition.
1858, BC: Angry water
Many thanks to Nancy Anderson for sharing this on the Facebook “Chinook Jargon” group!
January 1895: “Our Monthly Budget”, Part 2c (our travels; Head (of the) Lake; letter from Belgium)
From “Kamloops Wawa” #124 (January 1895), page 2, the local news in Chinuk Wawa!
Sliammon Coast Salish words borrowed from Chinuk Wawa
When we comb through a dictionary of a Pacific Northwest Indigenous language, we often find wonderful preserved bits of Chinook Jargon — and so it with the Sliammon Coast Salish language of British… Continue reading