1867: Salish telegram in Chinook
This should have been posted on my site long ago, when I originally read it! š¤·āāļøš¤·āāļø
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Another version of the US Grant ‘n’ Stanton ‘n’ Nesmith ‘n’ Ingalls anecdote
A different Chinook telegram!
/r/ in Chinuk Wawa is MeĢtis
If I’m not mistaken, the phoneme /r/ in Chinuk Wawa is essentially MeĢtis in origin.
1929: Saanich clams
Credit goes to my reader Alex Code for today’s harvest of genuine BC Jargon.
“Sounook”, a modest proposal
A recent “op-ed” letter to a BC paper suggests replacing the term “Chinook wind”…
sisu, from MeĢtis French as well as English
The Chinook Jargon word for ‘scissors’ comes from both MeĢtis French and English…
siŹaɬ (Chief Seattle’s) speeches to back-translate: Part 2 of 3
wÉxĢ£t hayu masi kŹ°apa ukuk lalang-tayi Peter Bakker, yaka munk-kÉmtÉks nayka qŹ°a pus nanich ixt ɬush skul-pipa…
1930 [1869+]: “Seattle Memories”
“Seattle Memories” is the autobiography of girl pioneer Edith Sanderson Redfield (1862-1933).
Beans via MeĢtis French
It looks like North American French has used an English word for ‘beans’ for quite a long time.
1889: What a Canneryman Must Know, BC
We’ve observed Chinook Jargon as a language of the multiethnic work crews in Pacific Northwest salmon canneries…