Chinook Jargon “skúl” = ‘residential school’ in BC languages
I remember folks, years ago, asking me if there was information about BC’s old residential schools for Indigenous kids in the Kamloops Wawa newspaper, and telling them “nope”.
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“mank” as an adverb?, and variation in the earliest, Central dialect
I just put up a post here about the “Ave Maria” (Hail Mary) prayer as preserved in H-T Lempfrit’s notebook, and it included an odd use of mank-.
1827-1828: Edward Ermatinger’s York Factory Express journal, and lack of Chinook Jargon beyond Fort Vancouver
My specialized book report on “Edward Ermatinger’s York Factory Express Journal: Being a Record of Journeys Made Between Fort Vancouver and Hudson Bay in the Years 1827-1828″ (published by the Royal Society of… Continue reading
Nater 2025 on foreign influences in Nuxalk (Bella Coola Salish)
I’ve just been in Chilliwack, BC, at the 60th ICSNL (International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages), which led to my becoming aware of a new study that discusses Chinook Jargon.
G Demers article, and missionaries adapting to Indigenous understandings
I try to read what’s said about Chinook Jargon in the scholarly literature — so you don’t have to!
Myron Eells’s hymn book (Part 12: For Children)
Definitely in the Northern Dialect of Chinook Jargon is song #12 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):
1919, BC: Hyas Kloshe Tanse (mistranslated)
Most people’s grasp of Chinook Jargon was pretty out of practice by 1919.
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost legacy (Part 25a, Ave Maria) (Part 25b, Credo)
We’ve seen H-T Lempfrit’s manuscript dictionary; and now for some rare old Chinook Jargon texts on its following pages!
Proof of concept: How to say ‘grandfather’ in Northern Chinook Jargon
You won’t find texts in the Northern Dialect using the word chúp for ‘grandfather’.
Sequim (WA) Press, Part 2 (08/05/1921): A party/potlatch invitation
Well beyond the frontier era, locals in the still-remote northern Olympic Peninsula of Washington state were likely to understood Chinook Jargon…