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.
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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.
Circa 1862: Maybe if he’d known Chinook…
Imagine my delight on finding another example of 1800s supernatural communication that involves Chinuk Wawa!
1870: From Our Warm Springs Correspondent (a tall tale)
Published letters to the editors of newspapers in earlier days were customarily signed with a pseudonym, to protect the writer’s anonymity…
Quileute’s Chinuk Wawa (and other) traces
I’ve gradually been looking through linguistic documentation of Indigenous languages that have borrowed Chinook Jargon words, and today I come to Quileute…
Re-evaluating Boas’s 1888 “Chinook Songs” (Part 13, the finale)
We finish up with two last Chinook Jargon songs, plus a Tlingit mystery bonus.
1873: More about Yaquina Bay war rumors
Today we’re privileged to be told another version of a Chinuk Wawa conversation between an Oregon (or California) Coast Indian and a Settler woman.