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Pioneers to Meet Soon
Toward the end of a post-frontier news article announcing a Washington pioneers’ gathering, a sense of urgency is imparted by switching into untranslated Chinuk Wawa.
“T’see Alki”: a lost Downey-Bartlett song?
Found: a Chinuk Wawa song we didn’t know of before.
Seal of Kalama
Chinuk Wawa humor…
“The New El Dorado, or, British Columbia”
Here’s a fortuitously — even questionably — timed curiosity for you: “The New El Dorado, or, British Columbia” by Kinahan Cornwallis (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1858).
Istahibs Bill Has a Potlatch
In the post-frontier era on south Puget Sound, the local news reporter and his readers needed a Chinuk Wawa translator.
The Boston Alaskan
Quite an odd place to track down some Chinuk Wawa: a boosteristic magazine titled the “Boston Alaskan: Published in the Interests of Alaska” (edited by L.M. Norton).
How Indians Get Their Dye
From a Clayoquot (Nuuchahnulth) man selling Indian handicrafts with his wife in Seattle:
Half and Half (Pilton 2)
Is “A.” for “Archibald“?
Pilton’s doggerel (1 of 2)
A classic in English forms the sourdough starter for half-Jargon doggerel…