1909, Tekoa, WA/De Smet, ID: Indians Doast [SIC] Big Beef Whole
From the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation in post-frontier times, we hear of a big party thrown by a respected tribal leader…
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Myron Eells’s hymn book (Part 8: Heaven)
Song #8 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):
1866, Olympia, WA: “Nocturnal Scenes” doggerel — or documentary?
I won’t be surprised if we learn that the following poem is an accusation of a real murder!
More for the ‘or’ drawer: French ‘mais’
We’ve recently seen a few examples of weird conjunctions popping up in Northern-Dialect Chinook Jargon; here’s another.
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 18: The Indian chiefs of British Columbia
Another of the precious, and popular, photos in “Kamloops Wawa”, the Chinook Jargon newspaper, showed its readers much more than the caption told.
1885: Tacoma, the Terminus — and Native hops pickers
A visiting group from an Iowa newspaper in the late frontier era witnesses the huge intercultual gathering of hops pickers talking Chinuk Wawa…
Ouch. Nope. HowToSayGuide.com
Thanks to JD Norton for this find!
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost, linguistic legacy (Part 21: some lovely complex expressions)
The 21st pair of pages in this precious document again brings us plenty of stuff worth knowing about Chinook Jargon.
‘Wheat from India’ and Métis influence on Chinuk Wawa’s sound
Chinuk Wawa has a tendency to simplify /nd/, at the end of a word, to /n/.
Early July of 1924, Oregon: Al Tozier got them talking Jargon
Many thanks to Chas Hundley of the Gales Creek Journal for sharing this find!