My goodness…another version of the US Civil War “code talk telegram” story
Still another version of the Civil War “code talking” Chinook Jargon anecdote/joke!
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Chinook Jargon in the news: Seattle Times on Washington state ferries woodworkers
The Seattle Times’ Nick Deshais (who used to report here in Spokane) has a great article in that paper’s “Traffic Lab” series:
CA: a Yurok etymology for alíkʰuchik ‘dentalium’?
Let me echo the sentiments of Bright and Olmsted!
Traces of Chinook Jargon in Achumawi?
The farthest southeast that I’ve found accounts of people speaking Chinuk Wawa is in Modoc-Klamath country of far south-central Oregon, which abuts Achumawi territory, in the northeastern corner of California.
OR, BC: Reinhart’s “The Golden Frontier…1851-1869”
My thanks go to Gaye Schafer for sharing this book of her ancestor’s frontier-era memories of Oregon, and other Pacific NW areas.
Are ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ ever Adjectives in Chinook Jargon?
Are ‘fast’ & ‘slow’ ever Adjectives in Chinuk Wawa? Nope.
Back from vacation. 2nd reminder: Chinook Jargon Gathering @ Ft Langley BC, Sept 12-13!
Naika tloosh tilihum (my good friends),
Another Salish word, and more humor, in Northern Chinook Jargon
The Secwépemc word suptsín, ‘beard’, shows up in the Chinook Jargon newspaper!
Russians speaking Chinuk Wawa in Alaska
One of the persistent urban legends about Chinook Jargon has been that there are Russian words in it. Uh-uh.
1878, OR: How does “Chenook jargon” connect with Thomas Jefferson?
The American Naturalist of December 1878, page 825, makes the following novel connection.