1856: A Double Dose (California CPE)
Just another day at police court–with that other West Coast pidgin.
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1817: Roquefeuil on the PNW coast, relying on English
I think this particular book tells us more about how some Native people spoke some English with sailors by 1817…
1853-4: “Teapot” = “skookum paper”, in 2 places 1000 km apart
One of the more impenetrable little mysteries of Chinuk Wawa may now be cleared up.
1845-1848: Neall, “A Down-Easter in the Far West”
James Neall (1820-1903) was a Maine man who lived in the Oregon Country frontier from 1845 to 1848.
1886: Victoria-style Chinuk Wawa song from Nuxalks in Germany, and a grammatical mystery
Thanks to Dale McCreery for this wonderful find.
Happy Halloween: A part Upper Chehalis, part Chinuk Wawa monstrosity? :)
From the land of the “Halloweena” tribe…
1888: A Halloween tangent
Only obliquely related to either Chinuk Wawa or Hallowe’en, the following piece of PNW regional humour was irresistible…
1911: The vampire used a combination of Chinook and sign language :)
Extra Halloween / Chinook material for you…
1893: It’s easy to ridicule linguistics — but let’s leave Chinook out of it!
The best tie-in here is, to my surprise, to Chinuk Wawa.
1851: Good lower Columbia CW sentences
Preserved from the frontier period in the mind of a sharp observer…