1868, WA: A Lost Chapter of Judges
Here’s a totally fascinating political satire from Territorial days here in Washington.
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1897, BC: Awesome background on lakamín, in French, with humor!
Here’s a funny, maybe true, story from British Columbia’s frontier era that’s focused on lakamín, a cultural trait and a word that are important to Chinook Jargon.
1865, OR: Treaty-making between Northern Paiutes and USA
A little more evidence of Northern Paiute speakers in Chinook Jargon-speaking environments.
1858, BC: “The Indians Friendly!” — Arrival of the “Sea Bird”
“The Indians Friendly” was one of several stacked-up breathless headlines from the start of a gold fever.
1878, WA: Hoko Eyetems
Just a few words, but fun!
“Subject pronoun, subject pronoun” is probably really old in Jargon
With that settled, the next question may be whether this comes from casual French, as I suspect, meaning it dates to Fort Astoria/Fort Vancouver days, but not earlier.
1899, OR: Pioneer Women Reunite (hey readers, can you help?)
The Portland (OR) Sunday Oregonian of August 20, 1899, page 19, columns 1-2 carries a very interesting, but flawed, source of information about Chinook Jargon.
1874, BC: Ka hokoke stemah klatawa?
“Navigating by a Dead-Reckoning” is the headline on a territorial-era newspaper piece about the steamship North Pacific leaving Victoria, BC on its way to Puget Sound…
1918, AK: Humor about Chinuk Wawa
Enough readers of this post-frontier era Alaskan newspaper understood Chinook to make it worth publishing the following joke.
1869, WA: “Paddle Your Own Canoe” doggerel
I’m convinced Washington Territory was the world’s capital of Chinook Jargon-related doggerel poetry!