Humor: The last words of a Nicola Déné speaker?
When one of the last speakers of endangered Nicola Athabaskan thought it was the end of his life, he spoke Chinuk Wawa!
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A word for ‘batteries’ in Jargon: “Faraday machine”!
Sometimes Chinook Jargon can be downright steampunk!
Chinook Jargon in the news: So 2 chiefs and a priest go to Europe in 1904…
I posted about the Kamloops residential school yesterday — now here’s something about a well-remembered figure connected with that.
Main entrance, Kamloops residential school
Said to be a 1930’s photo by George Meeres, this shot of the Kamloops residential school entrance surprised me.
Lower Chehalis’s ‘stands up the sail tool tool’, and Chinuk Wawa influence
A word of Lower Chehalis Salish from elder Emma Luscier in 1941 ultimately shows traces of Chinuk Wawa.
1881: From Alaska — Why a Washington [DC] Clerk Went to a Far-Off Country
When Alaska was still a newly acquired territory of the USA (since 1867), most Americans to be found there were located in its southeast panhandle.
1912, Siletz, OR: Native minstrel show in Jargon?!
Most unexpectedly, we find Native people in Oregon doing a minstrel show in Chinuk Wawa…
More humor in Chinuk Wawa: How the priest wound up selling beer
This one’s also in a non-Chinook Jargon language, but it’s from the Chinook newspaper, and it’s quite a funny true experience!
1916: How to say “Ish Kabibble” in southern-dialect Chinook Jargon
Very important, as John Peabody Harrington might say in his field notes: here’s Grand Ronde’s style of Chinuk Wawa, spotted in the wild…
1855, OR: Where is the fault?
Genuine early-creolized, Grand Ronde area, Chinook Jargon had already crept into Pacific NW English by the time our first newspapers were being published (and complained about).