1891: A “Chinook and Clatsop” word for ‘legging(s)’
Professor Franz Boas, long may his name be remembered with respect, was not perfect.
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1856: The Causes of the Present Indian Difficulties in Oregon and Washington Territories (Métis, treaties, etc.)
The excellent observer, James G. Swan, syndicated his descriptions of life in Washington Territory nationwide.
Pyusim etymology? Stó:lō!
Calling all Salish scholars; what do you think?
1889, WA Territory: Palouse horse race invitation
I think it’s typical of my home region, far eastern Washington, that folks weren’t quite as good at Chinook Jargon as those elsewhere.
A remembered mid-Columbia River CJ word helps prove etymologies
Here’s a nice, serendipitous find that confirms some conclusions we’d already reached using the available evidence.
2008: Unseth on certain people’s awareness
I try to scour the world for every scholarly mention of Chinook Jargon…
1923, BC: “Chinook Short Grammar” (Kamloops Wawa #508)
This note is just to follow up on my previous piece, “1923: A re-discovered Kamloops Chinuk Wawa publication“.
Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 25: ‘to mend’)
There’s plenty more of value to examine in Prof. Franz Boas’s quite brief 1892 article on “The Chinook Jargon“…
1936, WA: Seriously, yet another version of the “sitkum dolla” joke!
Keeping score, I count 2 jokes within this late telling of our venerable PNW joke.
1900, OR: A litany of stock Jargon phrases substitutes for Latin
The graduation ceremony of an Oregon medical school probably didn’t really contain this faux-dignified humorous address in “the classic Chinook“…