Fictional Chinuk Wawa resulting from bad research
I know, I know…those 19th-century book titles…you’ll marvel at this one.
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Another fin-de-siecle plutocrat bragging he knows Chinook Jargon
G.F. Train may have showed up and “learned Chinook in 15 minutes“, but Owen Humphreys Churchill, 1841-1916, emigrated as a ten-year-old to southwest Oregon’s Umpqua Valley with his family.
“In racy Chinook”: Grand Ronde, hops, & squaredancing
The official publication commemorating the Lewis and Clark Centennial festivities in Portland, Oregon strenuously boosts the industries of the new land…
Intertribal canoe race: A challenge in Chinook
Here’s an oddity & a curiosity.
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.