H.M. Ball letter, 1871
You’ve seen Henry Maynard Ball recently on this website, as a judge absentmindedly misspeaking in Jargon to an Indigenous lady. Now you can read an entire letter he wrote to another Canadian woman… Continue reading
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Oregon CPE: Struck It in Hops (and linguistic “silos”)
In this website we’ve looked at reports of how Indigenous people and Chinese immigrants crossed paths…
Ducks yaka chaco!
Humor! A post-frontier reminiscence of frontier days on the north coast of British Columbia…
Another reason why it should be called “Chinúk-T’səx̣élis Wáwa”
A modest proposal I want to make about Salish-looking words of Lower Chinookan, many of which became Chinuk Wawa…
Union is accomplished! On y parle Chinook!
“Chinook spoken here,” that is.
Correspond in Chinook: how to say ‘sandwiches and clam chowder’
Pioneer Thomas Prosch of Seattle adds to a string of Chinuk Wawa-rich appearances in this space…
Sarah Ruhamah De Bell Frost Beggs, last survivor of the Oregon Mission of 1840
While working with legendary photographer Edward S. Curtis, the important early historian of the Pacific Northwest, Edmond S. Meany, had a chance encounter in South Dakota with a very old woman who spoke… Continue reading
Native Sons and Daughters
A social organization of Oregon-born kids of the pioneers — what better place to go looking for good (creole?) speakers of Chinuk Wawa!
Police Court
From the Barkerville beat: a sample of another pidgin language…
Sheepshanks! “A Bishop in the Rough”
A 1909 biography of John Sheepshanks, Bishop of Norwich, who spent time in early British Columbia. “A Bishop in the Rough“