1899, Condon, OR: Cumtux invites you for coffeewater and lemons for July 4th!
Well into the post-frontier era, but solidly in north-central Oregon’s Chinuk Wawa country, there was an untranslated invitation to a July 4th party.
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1893: Real-world Northern Chinook Jargon (Part 1…)
Every time we find documents of Chinook Jargon being applied to real life by actual speakers, we learn so much!
Klootchy Creek, Oregon’s Métis history
Thanks to Abby Mortimer in the Facebook CJ group!
Father J-M Le Jacq’s northern Chinuk Wawa came from the south
Something I’ve claimed for years becomes very apparent as you read through “Kamloops Wawa” #86 (July 9, 1893) … also #91, #92, and many more issues of the old Chinook Jargon newspaper.
1889: Tales of Okanogan Smith and his “klooch”
A man who married into the Similkameen band of Syilx a.k.a. Okanagan Salish people issued another in our collection of Chinook Jargon event invitations.
Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 20: ‘soup’)
Here’s another word that was a new discovery for Chinuk Wawa scholars in 1892.
1899, Yakima, WA: Hiyas … hops
Untranslated Chinook Jargon, even well into the post-frontier era, meant that local readers understood the message already.
1856, OR: Wake Quash is rejected
I don’t know the full background on this one, but the person with the pen name “Wake Quash” must have been so named for their boldness.
Old postcards (Part 2: a typical bungalow?)
“Siwash home — a typical Indian bungalow, Washington”…
Ikta Dale McCreery yaka t’ɬap (Part 10: seriously, don’t say “musum” in Northern Dialect unless you mean busy-ness!)
Another great bit of Northern Dialect spotted in the wild by our linguist friend, Dr. Dale McCreery.