Intertribal canoe race: A challenge in Chinook
Here’s an oddity & a curiosity.
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Rickrealling
The northwest Oregon community of Rickreall is believed to take its name from some of its earliest settlers having been of Canadian French Métis background.
Son of Lingít chief dies
Untranslated Chinuk Wawa in an Alaska newspaper, frontier-era.
Savage courtesies
Ugh. Playing Indian in Oregon.
Early 1900s onward: “Hi-Yu” (and) “Hi-Yu” clubs
Hi-yu: a neglected loan from Chinuk Wawa into Pacific Northwest English.
Spokane Indians baseball used to be associated with this language
My numerous foreign readers might find the following hard to translate!
Nimíipuu Chief Joseph’s interview with cartoonist Homer Davenport, 1903
A wonderful article at The Davenport Project blog is fun reading, with the added value of bringing us rare quoted Chinuk Wawa from the Palouse region of southeast Washington and north Idaho.
College yells in Chinook were all the rage
Chinook + Latin + German + English, wouldn’t you know. College kids…
J.A. Meyers of Meyers Falls, Washington remembers…
“Many residents”?
Indians, hops, and Chinuk Wawa
It’s been said Native migrant labor in (mostly settler-owned) hops fields of the Pacific Northwest correlated with speaking Chinook Jargon. Today, some new documentation.