College yells in Chinook were all the rage
Chinook + Latin + German + English, wouldn’t you know. College kids…
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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.
Edwin Eells speech to fellow pioneers
On his election to the Vice-Presidency of the Washington Pioneers Association in 1905, oldtimer and former Indian agent Edwin Eells, who was introduced as about to speak in “both his native tongues — English… Continue reading
More from the father of the Golden Potlatch
There’s more to say about the Golden Potlatch!
A Clatsop pioneer of 1840 recalls…
Eyewitness to a maritime disaster of the United States Exploring Expedition, the wreck of the USS Peacock…
I learned Chinook Jargon in 15 minutes
…claimed the colorful, eccentric, famous rich man after whom Jules Verne may or may not have modeled his protagonist Phileas Fogg!
Ogopogo in Chinook Jargon
Among the odder themes that recur when you’re a scholar of Chinook Jargon: cryptids.
Were you horse-stealing?
The humor in this Chinuk Wawa quote is left untranslated, as usual in frontier times when the readers who mattered would understand it anyway!
La cingle, or la ceinture?
George Gibbs’s influential 1863 dictionary of Chinuk Wawa supplies etymologies.