1924: A late Victoria-style song is among the oldest Chinuk Wawa audio
“Hello Sweetheart”!
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1891: Two identical letters
hayu masi to Robert Kyniston in the Facebook “Chinook Jargon” group for posting copies of these!
“The Book of a Thousand Tongues”
Senior Chinook Jargon scholar and Saturday Zoom group participant, Dr. Jay Powell, told us an interesting tidbit…
Adding the Métis back to Prunet 1990
Much appreciation to David Gene Lewis, PhD, for providing me a copy of Jean-François Prunet’s interesting article!
Why was syphilis called Chinook in the interior PNW?
While researching the etymology of the name “Chinook”(*), I happened upon a couple of occurrences of similar-sounding words in interior Pacific Northwest languages…
AF Chamberlain 1891 “Words of Algonkian Origin” — really Métis — in CW
dret hayuuu masi kʰapa shawash-iliʔi man ya kəmtəks hayu qʰata uk anqati shawash tilixam, Dr David G Lewis PhD (many many thanks to a Grand Ronde person who knows a lot about old-time… Continue reading
1866 or earlier: More opera in Chinook?
An anecdote of early Settler times in British Columbia jokes about Chinuk Wawa…
Only at Grand Ronde?
I’m far from the first to observe that the Chinuk Wawa of the Grand Ronde Tribes, in Oregon, is unique in many ways…
1896: Didn’t sabey Chinook
Might be the earliest known occurrence of the perfect Pacific NW joke.
1895: Sladen / Hurd, “On the Cars and Off”
Once upon a time, it was fashionable for upperclass Englishmen to tour Canada & publish a book about it.