Hawai’i Pidgin “high makamaka” helps us bust a Jargon myth
No, this is not a newly revealed secret etymology of a Chinook Jargon phrase…
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1859: Hias cumtux!
[Edited to correct my early-morning misreading! hayu masi to Alex, Norbert, and Darrin.] An early Oregon newspaper notice is about half Chinook! Hias Cumtux. ALL persons indebted to me are requested to potlatch black hiack. P.D.… Continue reading
Michael Brophy’s series of paintings, “The Chinook Jargon”
“The Clear Cut Future” book is a collection of visual art, poetry, prose. (Astoria, OR: The Clear Cut Press, 2003.) One of the contributors is the painter Michael Brophy, with selections from his… Continue reading
1925: BC pioneers banquet
Chinook was there! The cartoon accompanying the article Past Glimpsed as B.C. Native Sons Banquet Pioneers Tributes Are Paid by “Marks of Appreciation.” YOUTHS OF 80 IN ATTENDANCE Happy Toasts — Some Make… Continue reading
“Quick willies” in the Okanagan
I was looking through “BC Then and Now: Okanagan / Kootenay / Cariboo / Volume One” by Roland Morgan (Vancouver, BC: Bodima, 1978).
Lower Chehalis ‘boy baby’ etc. < CW
A very brief glance at a parallel between Lower Chehalis (Coast Salish) and a language that it helped give birth to, Chinook Jargon…
1881-1882: CW & Métis French on the upper Columbia in Washington
Both of the Pacific NW Métis languages show up in a couple of later frontier narratives of north-central Washington…
Bella Coola CW song, and more…
Reader challenge! Has any of you heard the “Chinook Love Song by Pat Schooner” from Bella Coola (Nuxalk country, BC)?
1880s?: Ellensburg, WA area
A family recollection that I originally shared on the old CHINOOK listserv merits re-posting here…
1858: Jargon humor in California
One byproduct of the Fraser River gold rush of 1858 was that Oregon gained even greater prominence in the minds of Californians, who found its inhabitants oddballs.