Jargon was current in eastern Oregon by 1845
Eyewitness testimonial specifying that Chinuk Wawa was already being spoken by Eastern Oregon Native people early in the settlement era.
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LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 7
Buying the farm: we get just slightly more specific about money today. Just slightly.
Weather forecast (Albany, Oregon)
An unexpectedly recurring theme in the pages of old newspapers — talking about the weather in Chinuk Wawa.
LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 6
Let’s talk money. In a “trade language”, that should be really easy, right? Read on.
Secretary of the Navy gets an Indian name
The ubiquitous Tillikums of Elttaes again! I might have known!
An insult to our great Chinuk Wawa!
Interesting for a post-frontier glimpse at how Chinuk Wawa was viewed in Oregon in comparison with commercially powerful European languages…
LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 5
Today’s treaty Article language later got litigated in the momentous Boldt Decision of 1974. That’s how important questions of translation can be…
LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 4
Back-translating Pacific Northwest Indian treaties is a revealing exercise; here’s more, and stay tuned for when I get into the Native people’s comments on it…
LINGUISTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: TREATY LANGUAGE (POINT NO POINT), PART 3
(Back to: Part 1; Part 2) “On the first day of the council, treaty provisions were translated from English to the Chinook Jargon for the 1,200 assembled natives.”
Linguistic archaeology: Treaty language (Point No Point), part 2
More linguistic archaeology, reconstructing some Chinuk Wawa treaty language.