1885: Tacoma, the Terminus — and Native hops pickers
A visiting group from an Iowa newspaper in the late frontier era witnesses the huge intercultual gathering of hops pickers talking Chinuk Wawa…
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Ouch. Nope. HowToSayGuide.com
Thanks to JD Norton for this find!
Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost, linguistic legacy (Part 21: some lovely complex expressions)
The 21st pair of pages in this precious document again brings us plenty of stuff worth knowing about Chinook Jargon.
‘Wheat from India’ and Métis influence on Chinuk Wawa’s sound
Chinuk Wawa has a tendency to simplify /nd/, at the end of a word, to /n/.
Early July of 1924, Oregon: Al Tozier got them talking Jargon
Many thanks to Chas Hundley of the Gales Creek Journal for sharing this find!
Didactic dialogues in CW dictionaries (Part 5: This City of Ours)
Sort of a strange place to find example sentences of Chinuk Wawa: a civic history textbook for Seattle kids.
2024: Sacred Covenant
Thanks to Father Leo Barker for the link to this Chinook Jargon document.
July 7, 1924, Bella Coola, BC: Mr. Sundayman’s name
Our Tuesday evening Zoom group was talking about this Sunday name the other day. (Email me for the Zoom link to join us!)
So many Métis words in interior PNW languages (part 9: Snchitsu’umshtsn / Coeur d’Alene)
Let’s look beyond the heavily traveled transport corridor of the old fur-trade “brigades”…
The long-running rumor about innocently cussin’ Indians
In a previous post here, I showed a 1915 memoir that claimed to document how cussin’ ‘n’ Chinookin’ went together in frontier-era Idaho…