1883, Goldendale WA: From the faithful Lucy (a drag queen)
How is today’s writer like sweet Betseyannspikes?
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1948: BC oldtimers who speak Chinook: Names are named!
This mid-century local colour piece managed to draw a number of surviving Chinuk Wawa speakers out of the woodwork.
1891, Vancouver BC: A stupid potlatch?!
Points to the Vancouver paper, for introducing its report on a Native potlatch with the culturally perceptive description that itʹs a “festival which is of a semi-religious character”.
1888, Umatilla: A Polyglot Court
This may have taken place in Portland, Oregon, with a Native defendant from the Umatilla area of northeast Oregon, in the late frontier period.
1892, Seattle: The Pocahontas-John Smith tableau, in Jargon
This is far from the first time the name “Pocahontas” has made its appearance on my website…
1861: When Métis languages (plural) met in the Tsilhqot’in
Why would a Protestant preach in French in the Chilcotin country in 1861?
Who was the “Old Employee of the HBC”?
This question came up in our Saturday morning Chinook Jargon group this weekend … Interested in joining us? Email me: spokane ivy @ gmail . com
1889: Another Chinook interpreter in BC court (and “Second Charlie”?)
Back-translation, anyone?
1936, Hoquiam: Heap Little Chap Nowitka Skookum
A couple of generations past the frontier era, a kid who spoke Chinuk Wawa was worth a news article.
1900: The Northwest Jargon + William Jennings Bryan
In the post-frontier period, a traveling salesman in western Washington managed to avoid the already popular “sitkum dollar” joke…