BC Chinuk Wawa love song
I’m thankful to my reader Jakob for sending a link to this nice music!
Category Archive: Uncategorized
1792: Crowdsourcing challenge — Galiano’s Hul’q’umi’num (and Nootka Jargon?) vocabulary
I’m taking the approach of asking my readers for language help with Spanish and Coast Salish today…
1898: Signed, Halo Cumtux, Lillooet, BC
Looks like two Chinook writers at work here…
Why Granville Stuart’s Chinuk Wawa was Grand Ronde-ish
When I’ve previously written about Montana settler Granville Stuart’s CW vocabulary, I’ve mused about how surprisingly Grand Ronde-like it is.
1900: IORM invite in Jargon
You won’t get much Chinook reading practice here, but…
1889: Warm Springs Indians request Jargon-speaking agent
At the end of the frontier era, Chinuk Wawa was still an important tool.
1941: Spencer Scott’s SW Oregon Chinuk Wawa vocabulary (audio)
Thanks a million to Chinuk Wawa speaker/writer/revitalizer Alex Code for pointing us to this one!
1921: Alaskan “Eyak” Jargon is a mix of pidgins!
Well after the frontier period, a Chinook Jargon invitation in Alaska is quite a different animal from “the classic Chinook”.
Kamloops Wawa humour (part 3: White people’s weird horses)
I expect Native folks had already heard these called “bicycles” in English…
1825: Scouler all around the PNW coast
Fort Vancouver was so new that it wasn’t yet as big as Fort George (Astoria), at the time when naturalist John Scouler visited the Pacific Northwest.