February 1895: “Our Monthly Budget”, Part A (busy busy; Sugarcane Bell; an apology for “turning Métis”)
From Kamloops Wawa #125, page 18:
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Gibbs’s (and Gill’s) “arbutus” is misleading
I got to thinking, how weird is it that “arbutus” is in some Chinuk Wawa dictionaries…
Myron Eells’s hymn book (Part 9: Untitled, to the tune of “Happy Land”)
Song #9 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):
“Newspaper salmon”, a PNW Indigenous English phrase (and a BC Chinook Jargon discovery)
A letter from a British Columbia Indigenous man in Chinook Jargon has puzzled me a bit:
“Jagwire” and “silex”
I’ve made the point any number of times that English-literate Americans often spelled Chinuk Wawa’s /á/ with the letter < i >.
1914, Oregon: Cradlebaugh issues book of poems
I’m mentioning this only because it uses a “Chinook jargon” word that will confuse people.
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 19: Steel-frame buildings in Chicago
Another of the precious, and popular, photos in “Kamloops Wawa”, the Chinook Jargon newspaper, revealed some of the amazements of the world beyond British Columbia…
1897: Kulturarbeiten in Britisch-Columbien
Here’s something different!
1898, Portland, OR: Red Men banqueted!
The printed menu of an Improved Order of Red Men (a Settler club) banquet in post-frontier Oregon was titled in Chinook Jargon…
1914: LBDB’s “Chinook-English Songs”, part 5 of 15 “Wah, Hy-as Chuck Cooley”
More of Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett’s odd use of Chinuk Wawa for you today, in this long-delayed episode.