1862: A threat taken seriously
A threat made in Chinook Jargon in frontier-era Victoria was understood loud and clear.
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1914: Pioneers appeal for “Indian war” pensions
Some big names among early Settlers appear here: Oregon Trail memorial promoter Ezra Meeker, Lower Canada rebel and Champoeg participant FX Matthieu, and women’s rights activist and publisher Abigail Scott Duniway…
1909: Job wanted ad, “speaks Chinook”
I would love to learn whether this advertisement secured its author the sort of job he wanted!
1897: A Klondike version of the “sitkum dollar” joke, with a celebrity
The famous “Poet of the Sierras”, Joaquin Miller, spoke Chinook Jargon.
1917: Obituary of preacher to Colville tribes
Chinook Jargon remained in use longer in back-country places than it did in the cities of the Pacific Northwest.
1912: Claptrap??
In post-frontier era towns, in the Chinuk Wawa heartland, the language was quickly seen as passé.
A weighty difference between southern and northern CW
The southern (early-creolized) dialect of Chinuk Wawa is just plain “heavier” than the northern (later, re-pidginized) dialect.
And more about (the) venereal
Just recently I showed you that “Chinook” in a number of interior Pacific Northwest languages became the word for ‘venereal disease’.
“Exploring the Olympic Mountains…1878-1890”
Settlers considered much of Washington state unexplored wilderness until pretty recently.
1909: Skookum boots
Just putting this here.