1878, SE Alaska: Chief Toy-a-att’s speech: Back-translation challenge
There are plenty of hints in today’s featured frontier-era newspaper article that Chinook Jargon was being used a lot in Southeast Alaska.
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1906, Olympia, WA: Mika quanisum potlum!
It was 16 years into the post-frontier era. Did the local newspaper translate the Chinook Jargon it was quoting?
So many Métis words in interior PNW languages (Part 11: Spokane Salish — a bill of goods)
Another in our ongoing collection of Canadian/Métis French words that show up in a very interesting geographical pattern: they’re loaned into the Indigenous languages of the Interior Pacific Northwest!
1903: Oregon Indigenous baseball doggerel
This vintage baseball item fits in our “Chinook Jargon-related doggerel” file; look for the Wawa component!
1885, Roseburg OR: Siwash memaloose Boston man? And Settler phonetic clues
We can understand the un-translated Chinook here…
1911, Seattle: Novelties in Taft’s Welcome
Another of the US presidents who was exposed to Chinuk Wawa was William Taft:
1893: Real-world Northern Chinook Jargon (Part 3, litmus paper)
Now for the third of 3 segments from Kamloops Wawa #84 (June 25, 1893), pages 104.
1896, Muckleshoot Reservation, WA: An enjoyable outing
Shortly into the post-frontier era, there’s still an excellent use for Chinuk Wawa in the south Puget Sound area.
1896, Oregon: Old Methodist hymn in Jargon amuses
At an anti-booze convention, there was entertainment of another sort…
Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 22: tail)
From Prof. Franz Boas’s brief 1892 article on “The Chinook Jargon“…