1928: Edward Harper Thomas on CJ dictionaries
I’m not the biggest fan of his Chinook Jargon dictionary, although it was the first one that I ever got hold of…
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1902, BC: Chinese Pidgin English + Chinook Jargon, again
Thanks to Alex Code, appropriately enough, for this item as well.
1860: The Abridgement — Chenook jargon — cussin’ — and back-translation
I don’t know why a title “The Abridgement” comes up online for this 750-page item; it’s one of those US government compendiums of reports from the various “Indian agents” and land surveyors.
Northern Chinook Jargon: Do “go” and “come” only encode destinations?
Cutting to the chase:
Sequim Press, Part 3 (06/10/1921): Jamestown S’Klallam and local Chinook Jargon
An engaging little series on a smalltown paper that ran untranslated Chinook Jargon pieces well past the frontier era.
WA: Ned Chambreau’s phenomenal 1876-1880 journals
Some great information from an eyewitness of the later frontier era of Washington is to be found in Ned (Edouard) Chambreau’s journals.
1873, OR folklore: Earliest known version of the “sitkum dolla” joke?
I think we may have just antedated the classic Pacific NW “sitkum dollar” joke by 24 years!
Shaky shaking hands?
One of the first expressions I was taught in Chinuk Wawa was from a Southern-dialect speaker: ískam ləmá.
1877, Klamath, OR: Declining to make use of widely spoken Chinuk Wawa
From another US government “Annual Report of the Department of the Interior“, we have this account of missionaries in charge of the Klamath Indian Reservation declining to take advantage of the people’s familiarity… Continue reading
Chinook Jargon in the news: BCLC GameSense brochures
You might enjoy the very informative post recently published by BCLC, the British Columbia Lottery Corporation.