Sm’algyax’s Jargon traces
Much as we’ve seen in Alaskan Haida and Tlingit, the Tsimshian language of southeast Alaska carries a number of traces of its contact with Chinuk Wawa decades ago.
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From Grand Ronde to Cheney: Chinuk Wawa translation in Eastern WA, 1881
An unexpected early Chinook Jargon connection between Grand Ronde country and Spokane territory…
BC word discovery: “Siwash potatoes” = spring beauty (& other observations)
“An Early Settler Takes up Land” is a 1950 memoir by the late T.H. Butters…
Alaskan Haida’s BC / Aboriginal Jargon traces
Alaskan Haida retains quite a few indications of contact with Chinook Jargon, and they connect it directly with British Columbia.
The enduring influence of early-creolized Chinuk Wawa: a Cowlitz Tribe 1915 meeting
Wonderful evidence of the lasting influence of early-creolized Chinuk Wawa in southwest Washington state…
The Nez Perce Indians, picking hops north of 49
Remembering several years up to 1912, a BC Okanagan Settler reminisces about Nez Perce tribal people who would come up from the Colville Indian Reservation to pick hops in the Vernon area.
1891: Snohomish Pioneers talk in Chinook
Even at the dawn of the post-frontier era, Chinook Jargon was for old-timers on Puget Sound.
1897 California CPE: The Tongs Much Exercised
A gang conflict flares up into a fatal shooting in post-frontier Sacramento…
Circa 1853: Girls just want to have fun
Martha [Conner] Ellis Sapp, born circa 1844, came to the Pacific Northwest coast square in the middle of the frontier era, when you most definitely had to “do it yourself”.
‘Flag’ in Tsimshian & hidden Chinook Jargon (and English) (and Salish)
Sometimes you spot one odd-looking thread sticking out, pull on it, and find it was an important part of the cloth.