1904: Fire in a Chicago Theatre (Part 1 of 2)
The horrific Iroquois Theatre fire of 1903 is the subject of a lurid narrative in Chinuk Wawa…
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Hul’qumi’num’s Jargon traces
A language that carries a serious inheritance from Chinuk Wawa is Hul’qumi’num Salish (a.k.a. Cowichan, Island Halkomelem, et al.) of southeast Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
French Journals & “bostonnais”
Previously in this space, I’ve suggested that Chinuk Wawa’s < boston > for ‘white person; American’ could have a French-language ancestor…
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.
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 (Central Dialect) 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.