More humor in Chinuk Wawa: 1916, what a local person thought of the hectograph
A little more fun from “Kamloops Wawa” of March 1916 (No. 501), page [1]…
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1899: Chinook Nation recognition
Yes, there is Chinuk Wawa in this eyewitness report about the Chinook Indian Nation’s struggle for federal recognition.
1858, BC: Angry water
Many thanks to Nancy Anderson for sharing this on the Facebook “Chinook Jargon” group!
January 1895: “Our Monthly Budget”, Part 2c (our travels; Head (of the) Lake; letter from Belgium)
From “Kamloops Wawa” #124 (January 1895), page 2, the local news in Chinuk Wawa!
Sliammon Coast Salish words borrowed from Chinuk Wawa
When we comb through a dictionary of a Pacific Northwest Indigenous language, we often find wonderful preserved bits of Chinook Jargon — and so it with the Sliammon Coast Salish language of British… Continue reading
1909, Tekoa, WA/De Smet, ID: Indians Doast [SIC] Big Beef Whole
From the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation in post-frontier times, we hear of a big party thrown by a respected tribal leader…
Myron Eells’s hymn book (Part 8: Heaven)
Song #8 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):
1866, Olympia, WA: “Nocturnal Scenes” doggerel — or documentary?
I won’t be surprised if we learn that the following poem is an accusation of a real murder!
More for the ‘or’ drawer: French ‘mais’
We’ve recently seen a few examples of weird conjunctions popping up in Northern-Dialect Chinook Jargon; here’s another.
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 18: The Indian chiefs of British Columbia
Another of the precious, and popular, photos in “Kamloops Wawa”, the Chinook Jargon newspaper, showed its readers much more than the caption told.