1893: From Sri Lanka to Similkameen with Susan
There sure were a lot more skilled female Chinook Jargon speakers than you usually hear about…
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1894: Minnie-Wah-Wah??
Everything about this story rings false…and scholars have cited it.
Who was the Southeast Alaskan John Maclean?
John J. Maclean came to my attention when I found a biographical sketch of him…
1853: “Lettre de monseigneur Demers, eveque de l’Ile de Vancouver”
(Don’t worry, this post is in English!) Writing a letter from the still-new settlement of Victoria (BC), a very important person in early Chinuk Wawa’s history drops in some precious samples of CW… Continue reading
Circa 1894: Polk County vs. Billy Warren of Grand Ronde
[Edited to add an excerpt from the 1971 article.] A reprinted 1971 newspaper article, by Alta Savage Cerny of Dallas, Oregon, in a local paper, recalls a Grand Ronde Indian prisoner and the… Continue reading
1914: “Chinook-English Songs” (review)
The hometown newspaper gave a thumbs-up to Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett‘s collection of popular American songs translated into Chinuk Wawa.
1888 BC CPE: Chinese superstition
Also in the department of “Other Pidgin Languages on the West Coast”…
1889 Oregon CPE: Jesus appears
Again with the cussing, pidgin-speaking, Chinese immigrants — ?!
1853: Source of the idea that saplél is French
A myth is both busted and partly confirmed today.
1909: City folks had forgotten Chinuk Wawa, Quinaults didn’t know English
A reprint article credited only “Exchange” tells of some white city folks visiting Taholah on the Quinault Indian Reservation a generation after the frontier era.