Nostalgia: Song in Chinook Jargon brings down the house
I’d love to know what this Chinuk Wawa song was…
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Modoc “Scarface Charley” was really Wagon-Scarface
Hey, lots of folks in the frontier West had colorful handles…
Native metaphors for disabilities
I don’t know why this hit me, but I’ve recently realized that Chinuk Wawa’s words for physical handicaps show us yet more evidence of Indigenous metaphors…
A point made by the “untutored savage”
A double slur.
By 1863, new Grand Ronde schoolkids only spoke Chinuk Wawa
August 1, 1863: less than a decade into the reservation period, schoolkids at Grand Ronde could only be taught in Chinook Jargon.
“Skinny”, “Boston dance”, and Rev. “Chatten” again
“From Siletz and Yaquina” is the header on a mid-to-late frontier-era letter to the editor telling of a pleasure trip to the Oregon coast.
Was with DeLong
(Another of my occasional illustrations of other West Coast pidgin languages, for comparison with ways Chinuk Wawa was spoken…) Quoted West Coast Chinese Pidgin English, telling one doozy of a true adventure tale!
Etymologies or “Oops”: rounding up some consequences
If it turns out to be true (as I suggested the other day) that Chinuk Wawa nouns beginning with the sounds úp… preserve an old Chinookan-language prefix p- ‘Instrument; Tool’…
The “Columbian” line: the ultimate in SW Washington Chinuk Wawa
(Edited to place more emphasis on James G. Swan…) Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864), preceding almost all of the published Chinuk Wawa documentation you know of, made one hell of a long footnote in his… Continue reading
Aged Grand Ronde Indian holds crowd spellbound
Not too far into the post-frontier period, Chinuk Wawa was already a curiosity just outside Grand Ronde…