1906, Olympia, WA: Mika quanisum potlum!
It was 16 years into the post-frontier era. Did the local newspaper translate the Chinook Jargon it was quoting?
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So many Métis words in interior PNW languages (Part 11: Spokane Salish — a bill of goods)
Another in our ongoing collection of Canadian/Métis French words that show up in a very interesting geographical pattern: they’re loaned into the Indigenous languages of the Interior Pacific Northwest!
1903: Oregon Indigenous baseball doggerel
This vintage baseball item fits in our “Chinook Jargon-related doggerel” file; look for the Wawa component!
1885, Roseburg OR: Siwash memaloose Boston man? And Settler phonetic clues
We can understand the un-translated Chinook here…
1911, Seattle: Novelties in Taft’s Welcome
Another of the US presidents who was exposed to Chinuk Wawa was William Taft:
1893: Real-world Northern Chinook Jargon (Part 3, litmus paper)
Now for the third of 3 segments from Kamloops Wawa #84 (June 25, 1893), pages 104.
1896, Muckleshoot Reservation, WA: An enjoyable outing
Shortly into the post-frontier era, there’s still an excellent use for Chinuk Wawa in the south Puget Sound area.
Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 22: tail)
From Prof. Franz Boas’s brief 1892 article on “The Chinook Jargon“…
1904: Still another version of the Civil War code-letter story
Tradition! Tradition!
Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 13: stresses, running fast, and more)
Our friend Dale McCreery PhD has sometimes sent reports on bits of Chinook Jargon he notices in the area of Bella Coola, British Columbia.